Everyone here is talking about שגרה right now. Routine. When are we going back to it, what will it look like, is this — this strange suspended few days after the ceasefire — already it, or is it the thing that comes before it. The word is in every news segment and every conversation. Chazara la-shigra. Return to routine. As if routine were a place you could drive to.

My good friend Ronit wrote to me the other day with something I can’t stop thinking about. She’d been looking at שגרה and its........

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