Originally published in the Summer 2015 issue Global Zion feature.After ten years of living in the U.S., an inexplicable numbness came over me. My confidence plunged about my place professionally, spiritually, and geographically. I was living in Washington, D.C., and my job at a non-profit, which once had excited and inspired me, now felt rigidly routine. My religious life, too, had become merely a social habit for me, not nourishing and transformative. I decided that the best way for me to move forward was to first go back: I would return to live in my hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine. Quitting my […]
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