It is about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening, and I am sitting quietly in the living room while everyone else in the house grabs a nap. It is raining outside. It turns out that--wait for it!--we're in the middle of the rainy season! Yesterday it poured and poured for hours, and we watched the yard outside transformed into a lake. I thought of Noah--it really seemed as though the heavens had actually ripped open and were spilling their entire contents on Papua.
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5:30 am on my first morning in Timika, and it is raining. Not a gentle rain, but an all-out downpour which has been going on for at least ten minutes. Even though we are sharing a house, I still feel very close to nature. The air conditioner in my room didn’t seem to be blowing cold air, but then I realised that this was because it is set in an open window, and its little bit of power can’t possibly compete with the overwhelming humidity from outside. So I gave up and ran the fan instead. Since I’d only had about five hours of sleep over the previous 36 hours, I slept pretty well.
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Rabbi Shoshana KaminskyI've been the rabbi of Beit Shalom Progressive Synagogue in Adelaide since 2006. As part of the Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, New Zealand and Asia, I'm now on my fifth trip to Indonesia to teach, pray and celebrate with the communities here. Archives
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