Perhaps, this secular new year will usher in a period of unplugging and grounding: less reliance on what the screen will provide and more dependance on what an in-person conversation does for the soul.
Some relationships find their fullness in time. Ours is now taking shape beyond it.
We lost a towering Jewish figure on Dec. 16 when Norman Podhoretz died only a month shy of 96.
Joseph’s magnanimity is exactly the reminder we need in our time of rampant moral grandstanding and eager denunciations.
We’re approaching something but I don’t know what.
The extinguished flame teaches us to recognize when we need to wind down… initiated by ourselves.
The world’s most influential moral and religious traditions rest, in part, on a people who refused to disappear.
We always have a choice. To practice our faith. To experience joy. To learn. To grow. To live. Or not.
At the end is a dubious place to begin.
