School equals family equals community

Tonight is the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. In a nutshell it is celebrating the time when the 10 commandments were given to Moses and then to all the people gathered at Mount Sinai. This is a beautiful holiday whose relevance today is so clear for me.

In order to be ready to actually receive the Torah, the Jewish people had to be unified. They had to stand together as one nation, as a family. No mean feat for around 600 souls. But this was the pre requisite. If they were to be ready to face the world that lay in front of them they would need to be a family, "like one person with one heart".

I feel very much like that now. We live in uncertain and challenging times and if we are going to get through then we stand our best chance if we stick together. I always talk about the Mina family and most families are facing unprecedented hardships which as we know are best faced when everyone works with each other and the future in mind.

So to this family, the Mina Lopato family lets work together, let's stay together until this passes so our children have a school to attend, our staff have jobs to sustain them and the world is better for having a school that cared enough to survive.