It's no wonder that Election Day is a Sabbath, after all, it is a holiday for Jews.
Not everyone knows what they want from themselves, certainly not what they want to come out of these elections. But, in any case, the holiday is welcome, the celebration is perfect.
It's late morning and the streets are sleepy, as if there is no day. It reminds me a bit of Shavuot in the morning, after studying Torah all night.
Silence. Silence. World peace.
It's morning and the streets are dirty like on holiday eves, before the last garbage truck arrives before the holiday.
Everyone steps on letters, instead of on sidewalks. They kneel and bow like on Rosh Hashanah, all the way to the ground, to pick up a piece of paper that looks different from the rest and check what is written on it.
Vehicles with songs and hymns playing, heads sticking out of the moving windows, just like on the holiday of Purim.
And buses full of guys leave all the serious meetings, on their way to the fundraiser, sorry... the voices..
So now, while the cars are igniting in my wake, and on the phone, from every party and its leaders are chasing me, while the sidewalk of my street is turning into one surface of printed papers, and above my head are hanging giant ads from wall to wall, from house to house, from street to street - I want to ask you, readers of Tori, an innocent question:
Have any of you ever been convinced by all this mud, all the voices and lightning, all the phone rings and the hammering of nails in the hanging bulletin boards?
I'll tell you the truth: I've almost decided in my heart that this time I won't vote for any party whose ballot is anywhere but in the ballot box. I won't vote for any party whose phone ringing center is heard on my device for the tenth time or more. I won't vote for any party whose activists give me a headache.
I just almost decided that in the end - I would do as I was told to do by those older than me.
And yet, haven't we matured, progressed, changed? How is it that with all the technological development, we are left with the piles of dominoes and the sounds of thunder?
Happy Election Day to all of us, with songs and dances, with drums and trumpets, with letters and notes, with hugs and praises.
How wonderful this thing is, that by the time the results are in, we are all certain that victory is in our hands!
You said, "Isn't it a blessing that such optimism is upon us?"
May this joy rest upon all of us, wherever we vote, forever.
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