I buy tahini in big 3kg tubs. It goes into hummous, pancakes, noodles, salads...so yes, 3kg tubs. Today I opened a new tub and spent 30' very carefully stîrring it. The tahini settles in transit, and you need to take a big, strong spoon and verrrry carefully draw up the dense caked stuff on the bottom and mix it with the pale oil on the surface. It takes a fair bit of strength and if you slip, sesame oil slops everywhere. So it's quite a meditation: slow, controlled movements requiring considerable force, over and over, until the whole tub is full of golden-cream oily tahini properly mixed.
This time I thought a lot about all the good people in Palestine who love tahini and right now don't have any place safe to stand and slowly blend tahini, who don't have any food, who don't have any place safe at all, who know so much more than I do about all the wonderful sweets and healthy dishes you can make with this tahini, who are being killed in ones and twenties and hundreds for reasons too awful to comprehend.
I am stirring the tahini.