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Does this time of the year feel different than it normally does, or different than it should? If so, give some examples of what feels different.

<strong>This is the time of the Jewish holidays.</strong> The time of <strong>long hours in synagogue.</strong> The time of certain <strong>songs and tunes that, at least for me, make up the day.</strong> The time of <strong>gathering with friends and family.</strong> The time of <strong>communal rituals, and even dancing.</strong> And <strong>all that is not allowed.</strong> I can't get a ticket to shul - and even if I did, the service is shortened; there is not singing; there is not mingling. <strong>I sit and pray on my own. </strong> And due to the rules, I can't even have more than 5 people sit with me in my garden. I heard the shofar in the backyard. I won't get to dance with a Torah on Simchat Torah. I won't march with others for Hoshanot throughout Sukkot. I won't sit in the sukkah with friends. There are not group meals. Yom Kippur I will be fasting and being on my own. Somehow I am to make a Yizkor service three times, for no more than 5 people at a time. Create that sense of communal mourning as we are not really a number of a community. It is Tishrei. <strong>It is the time of all the holidays. Just everything feels likes it's in the individual instead of the community.</strong>