Just a few months ago, i traveled on horseback through northwestern Mongolia, a remote region of herdsmen and nomads. Yet now that I am back in New York City—an urban environment that seems about as un-nomadic as you can get—my exotic journey through mountains and steppes suddenly feels especially relevant to my life, as well as to my mission as a rabbi. Within the first several days of my journey—after traversing the habitat of ibex, wolves and endangered snow leopards—I came across a celebration. A young man was about to be married, and relatives and neighbors had gathered to build him a ger—a circular, transportable, tentlike structure—as a present.
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