Traveling to THE-PLACE-WHERE-EVERYTHING-IS-THE-SAME-AS-YESTERDAY. I am in this place, and since everything is the same there are no surprises, no shocks, no upheavals. The routine, the protocol has been established, we know its details, and therefore everything works like clockwork.
No new faces, nothing to upset the applecart, no words I do not understand, no wrenches in the works, no problems that cannot be solved, knowing who is designated to help solve what problems, no problems surfacing that present a challenge, life goes on and it keeps on going on.
Routine is blessed, chanting the same Hebrew words everyday: Shakarit, Mincha, Ma'ariv davening. Words never changing, memorized correctly, tunes never changing, tradition keeps what is already known as sacred, being an everyday type of thing. Blessings creating patterns, same blessings, same patterns, bringing the same joy it did yesterday, everyone still the same, nothing to get bothered by, no new problems, same problems same solutions, sameness everywhere.
The comfort of sameness being the knowledge that G-d is everywhere and G-d's presence creates this comfort, G-d being the same as He was millions of years ago. What a rock.
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