Is Our Room the Room Where it Happens?

"If you want to
build a ship...teach [people] to yearn for the vast and endless sea." 

Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry



There was a joke I used to hear quite often, growing up. In
the joke, a Jewish synagogue (Reform, like the one I went to) is plagued by an infestation
of rats, and the congregation can’t seem to get rid of the pests, no matter
what they do. They try poison, they try traps, they try