The Mystery of of the ALEPH-BET video (yes, video) sits next to me. Reb Marcia's note to me on the cover, "May all the mystery open for you, Andrea." And how the mysteries opened. Less than a decade later, fall 2006, I found myself on the phone with Reb Marcia sharing my story and telling her I wanted to apply to the rabbinic program.
And here I am, the mysteries continuing to unfold, a rabbinic student in ALEPH, worlds I didn't know existed opening to me. With gratitude that the Shekhinah has come to reside in so many along this journey, particularly in Reb Marcia's wisdom to me, from brief moments and longer ones (DLTI, Smicha Week, Ruach Ha'Aretz) along the way.
To all those times, including the one when I called before Yom Kippur and unexpectedly poured my heart out, to the mysteries yet to open before me on this journey, thank you.
In love and Gratitude. Yonina Andrea Foster, Ph.D.
ALEPH rabbinic student
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