2 minutes, 22 seconds — witnessing a total solar eclipse

minutes and twenty-two seconds. A brief moment in time when, for those of us in the path of totality, it seemed that the world stopped turning. First a full circle, diminishing to a sliver, then — nothing. The sun disappeared, darkness came upon us. For those two minutes and twenty-two seconds we gazed upon a circle of blackness, a pause, a silence settled. Awe rippled through the plains of Wyoming. year ago, listening to NPR, Prof. Chaya Rapp heard that a total solar eclipse would be visible across the United States, with its “path of totality” coming through Casper, Wyo., about 350 miles north of Denver. “That was it, we decided we wanted to go,” says Rabbi Dani Rapp, Chaya’s husband and part-time spiritual leader […]