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Bonus: Dispatches From The Future

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Unorthodox dispatch, producer Sara Fredman Aeder shares an audio diary recorded over the last week as her family has been living under quarantine in Westchester, NY. If you want to keep these minisodes going, we’d love for you to rate Unorthodox on iTunes and set up a recurring donation—we suggest $5/month, which is to say one fancy coffee a month—at tabletmag.com/donate And, as always, if you want to keep up with all things Unorthodox, join our Facebook group here! Shalom, friends. Stay well.

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0:00.0

You know what's not working trying to get my job done right now. Right now I have to say on your

0:08.1

mark it's at go so my son can raise all of his stress. Are you ready roeie?

0:11.8

On your mark, get set. Go! Sorry Fred Menator is one of the two producers here on an Orthodox along with me Josh Cross with a Kay.

0:35.0

She's been home since March 5th and her kids have been off school since March 3rd.

0:40.0

So in the last week in order to get a feel for how some of us are going to be doing in about two weeks,

0:45.0

I've had to record an audio diary about what's been going on in her house and in her life.

0:50.0

From that, we've chosen a few samples to play for you.

0:53.0

We'll start with some audio from Friday afternoon, March 13th.

0:57.0

Enjoy. I just got off the treadmill I took about a 20 minute run while my kids were watching

1:17.0

TV I hate running I it makes me itchy actually like I have a physical response but I just so needed to get

1:26.2

that anxiety out of my body I needed to raise those endorphins and push through

1:30.9

and watch the mass Singer which is so dumb and silly.

1:37.0

It's Saturday night, March 14th. We just got out of Shabbat.

1:48.0

Shabbat and quarantine is hard because we are a fully Shabbat observant family which means we don't use technology

1:56.8

we don't do art so imagine being stuck at home with your five and three-year-old and the only thing you can do is be with each other.

2:05.2

So what did we do for Shabbat quarantine? We did prayers in the morning. We did a lot of puzzles in the morning.

2:13.0

We did a lot of puzzles.

2:15.0

We played in our backyard,

2:16.0

definitely one of the benefits to having a nice backyard.

2:19.0

We built forts.

2:21.0

We played both Spotted sorry which were sent to us by our wonderful and

2:26.4

Orthodox friends. We took naps. I do love napping with my babies.

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