חַס וְשָׁלוֹם
What would it truly look like to believe one did not belong to this world? To live as an alien among uncomfortable rooms. To walk as one untethered to the same gravity that compels earthly creatures to be shrunken into smaller forms. To know that the final days of the story have already been written, and are coming quickly to reunite the wanderers to their true home. Undoubtably, it would be a rootless freedom, if not mixed with the stranger's fears. A stranger in a distant land does not have the same concerns as the father and mother looking to provide for a family. They float effortlessly from port to shore - they will not worry about where the food comes from, when the taxes must be paid, how the baby's clothes will be bought. They will sometimes worry about the shelter for the night, or the ferry passage in the morning, but these would be taken care of. And if that stranger had a Guide, promising that, though they might often find passage in a crowded and smokey ship, they
