This story describes an afternoon in July 2016. I published an earlier version of this on Medium that same month, and later, in the Times of Israel. After reading Tuesday’s newsletter, an old friend suggested I share this here on Substack. "Ooh! Gross! It’s a dead squirrel!”
Reading this, I'm wondering if the children intuited that this squirrel was a gilgul. Huge tzaddikim moment, potentially.