Media personality Sivan Rahav Meir posted a video on her Facebook page this morning (Monday) showing Dr. Naftali Gross from Shaarei Tzedek dancing in protective clothing against the coronavirus.
In the post she said:
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This video of the dancing doctor is circulating online, so I asked him to write me an explanation:
""Hello Sivan, this is Naftali Gross. We are on the eve of Independence Day, the eve of the exodus from Egypt, and that's exactly how I've been feeling in the last few hours. This is my last shift in the Corona department at Shaarei Tzedek. The last patients are being discharged. We are closing, who would have believed it. Thank God.
We have lived for the past year on a planet far beyond your imagination. First and foremost, the dear patients and their families - who fought to breathe and live, literally. But the difficulty was much broader, from the heads of departments to the last volunteers.
Sometimes disaster followed disaster and successes failed to cover up the sense of loss and hell. The darkness of Egypt. I have difficulty recalling how many times we said a confession to a deceased whose family could not say goodbye.
When the Torah describes the Egyptian bondage, it illuminates small moments of kindness: Miriam's concern for the future of the people, the heroism of the midwives, Moses' compassion for the weak - these are points of light that illuminated great darkness. Looking back, even in the great darkness we experienced, I recognize many such moments: a cup of tea with a sick person, a kind word of encouragement, a pampering delivery from outside with a thank-you note.
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I don't know why our generation was destined to fight like this, but I do know that together we wrote a chapter in history. We will tell our grandchildren about this difficult period, and also about Israel's brilliant and amazing emergence from darkness into light, and at such a timely time.
Rabbi Kook writes that the Exodus from Egypt is not over, that it must always continue: 'The Exodus from Egypt will forever remain the spring of the entire world.' I leave the ward, take a deep breath, and indeed feel - spring has arrived.".
