He was everyone’s Hersh.

Israel’s communal split-screen existence runs right through the lives of many individuals.

God is present in the soul of each person; and a deep connection to the divine can be found in day to day social interactions.

The Mishna explains that Tu B’Av was one of the two most joyous days on the Jewish calendar, a day when “the daughters of Jerusalem would go out and dance in the vineyards,” calling out to potential suitors to consider them as wives.

For the last 307 days, we have been a heartbroken people. Yet each day the Jewish people return back to the same covenant again and again. And that is because hope is part of our DNA.

The idea of second chances is central to Judaism.

Names are a shorthand for who a person is, so when a literary work leaves a character anonymous, it demands our attention.