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Parashat Tzav
Even in the world to come, in the mythical perfected age when injustice and sin are utterly extinguished, we will continue to be required to express gratitude. The reason for this is simple: survival. Read more
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Parashat Vaera and hope in 2024: part 2
The scars of 2024 will be the emblems of our collective devekut: traces of the devastation and sweetness of another fleshly re-enactment of liberating Exodus. May those of us who continue into future of the coming decades live in awareness of our fortune: we will know the Exodus story. We will see the dead come… Read more
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Parashat Vayechi — the first deathbed and an origin of the Shema
Until the world is healed — if, how and whenever that may be — we can only praise quietly what we can only partially see. Our patriarchs and matriarchs are reassured by their descendants (us), but are nonetheless unable to tell us for sure what will become of us. The world is broken. We can’t… Read more
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Olam Ha-Ba
I can only remember the night now that the day won’t end. Dawn has become a legend in the memories only of we aging few septuagenarians, early risers, archivists. Read more
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Who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth
Was Joseph really OK with his past? I still don’t fully know. But I do know that I regard figures like James Agee with great awe and pity. I understand how trauma can devour a promising life because I have seen it happen to those around me. And I see Joseph as the alternative to… Read more
