May 26, 2020
8 min read
All-American Dreams
How words help us identify ourselves
When my parents married in 1952, they vowed they would love each other forever. When the rabbi conducting the ceremony asked them to repeat and state their vows, they said those two mundane words:
“I do.”
Before the ceremony, though, they had spoken other words, and though I wasn’t there when these utterances became…
