Confused and Tangled Times
My favorite words of Torah are the very first: \”In the beginning.\” They beg us to ask, what was there before the Creation that made God want to do more? And the answer provided in the text is especially fitting for our own warring time: tohu va\’vohu, which Rabbi Samson Hirsch, the sensitive linguist, translates as: \”confused and tangled, and darkness was over the turmoil,\” just as we are now.