JL;DR SUMMARY Unitha Cherry reflects on the struggles of observing Yom Kippur amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, highlighting the challenges of pursuing the Jewish principle of pikuach nefesh, which emphasizes the sanctity of human life, during wartime. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.