Healthy Unity, Honest Healing: Only After Taking Responsibility and Making Amends
It is deadly if we try to heal by ignoring the real challenges.
It is deadly if we try to heal by ignoring the real challenges.
For our Thanksgiving to do its redemptive work, we must tell the stories that are truly worthy of real gratitude: stories in which we can all see ourselves and hear our voices in all their divergences and disparities, stories too nuanced and complex to be told only once.
Because of Judaism, our story is as big as our people, encompassing all of our values and aspirations from generation to generation.
It is enough for you. Speak to Me no more regarding this matter. Go up to the top of the hill and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and see with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.
Donin himself conceived of his work as “a practical handbook on how to live a Jewish life,” but he also acknowledges that the overarching goal of the three books in the series is “to answer the constant query, ‘Why?’”
Rabbi Lazer Nanes was sentenced to 20 years in a Siberian labor camp for the crime of teaching Torah. He still refused to eat bread on Pesach.