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While the social networks of many Reform and Conservative Jews have been aglimmer this week with enthusiastic legume-themed posts—mostly gloating about new Passover recipes—the mood on my Orthodox social networks has darkened.

Aglimmer, a-glim′ėr, adv. in a glimmering state.

Visitors to the darkened halls of the Baltimore Museum of Art last week found them aglimmer with the forms that Grecian goldsmiths once made.

It was a stately old house—for two hundred years the Dellivers and the Balbians had been stately families—a house always rather dim, its shadows aglimmer with richness, and here and there a beam of light illuminating some flawless, precious object.

Thither he turns him quaking, but before Him dares not look, lest he should see her there Aglimmer through the dusk and, unaware, Discover her fill some mere homely part Intolerably familiar to his heart, And deeply there enshrined and glorified, Laid up with bygone bliss.