We’ve had a number of inquiries about whether our house is available for rent while we’re gone. Given the slow pace of our other preparations, it would be reasonable to assume no progress there as well, but B”H, this part has worked out.

Our place is going to be rented by a friend of a friend, who is a professor of Jewish History at the College of Charleston. He’s taking a yearlong sabbatical himself to ease his daughter into high school here in Chicago, and needed a place for the same timetable we’re going to be gone, so it was truly hashgacha pratis.