Inspired by a Hebrew essay on dualism penned a century ago by the famed poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Lisa Grant considers this COVID-19 moment from the perspective of ambivalences, ambiguities, dialectic tensions and diametric opposites. Leaning heavily on kabbalistic traditions, she suggests that this extreme time may force or encourage us to consider the extremes in our own personalities, communities and societies. She asks the provocative question: as we begin to re-emerge into our previous lives, can we avoid simply falling back into our tired old dichotomies?