{"id":38733,"date":"2020-04-08T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=38733"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:56:51","slug":"there-are-other-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/04\/there-are-other-nightmares.html","title":{"rendered":"There Are Other Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em> A friend writes from Brooklyn:<\/em><\/strong>  &#8220;I&#8217;ll spare you our preparations for Passover, which begins tonight. It seems weird to celebrate God deciding a plague should pass over the Jews when we&#8217;re sitting around with the coronavirus on our heads.&#8221;&nbsp;I agreed. His comment called to mind my own thoughts about a different Jewish observance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38730\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/atonement-recto-copy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atonement-recto-copy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"365,545\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ATONEMENT (Cold Turkey Press, 2020)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atonement-recto-copy.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atonement-recto-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38730\" width=\"349\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atonement-recto-copy.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/atonement-recto-copy-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38938\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/atonement-ct-fixed-gray-border\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ATONEMENT-CT-FIXED-gray-border.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"426,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ATONEMENT by JH (Cold Turkey Press, 2020)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ATONEMENT-CT-FIXED-gray-border.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ATONEMENT-CT-FIXED-gray-border.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38938\" width=\"346\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ATONEMENT-CT-FIXED-gray-border.jpeg 426w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ATONEMENT-CT-FIXED-gray-border-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption><em>9\/26\/2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A friend writes from Brooklyn:  &#8220;I&#8217;ll spare you our preparations for Passover, which begins tonight. 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