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Driving Inward

Parashat Re'eh August 17, 2012~29 Av 5772 Rabbi Jen Gubitz Inching forward the car came to a halting stop 30 plus feet before the yellow light, leaving a gaping two car length space at the intersection of Boston Post Road and Cochituate. I was annoyed.  We both could’ve made that light. With less than 30 minutes to run out between meetings, at one of the slowest intersections in Wayland, every minute counts. At the same time, I felt incredibly empathetic for the drivers of this car, for atop of it, on the side, and in the rear, emblazoned in large, bold text, were the words: STUDENT DRIVER. My own drivers ed experience occurred in a 1988 blue Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra, my first car, shared with my older brother, and with a drivers ed instructor who taught all 3 Gubitz kids to drive... Don would take us on I-69, drive about 20 miles south towards Indianapolis, stop for a snack, and then drive back. That initia