A Bisl Torah: To Begin Again
The start of a journey can be as easy as turning a page or reversing the hourglass.
The start of a journey can be as easy as turning a page or reversing the hourglass.
For six days God said everything was good, except loneliness.
Over the last year and a half, as the Covid-19 pandemic catapulted Cedars into crisis mode, families were prohibited from visiting their loved ones at bedside. Weiner got used to holding up smartphones so families could FaceTime.
Bennett is a fresh face, he is a promise of a different future, he is a possible remedy for some of the ills that inflicted Israel in the last couple of years. But the truth is that 100 days is a very short time.
As a contemporary grandmother, I’m surprised at how often I weave bits about my birth family’s Jewishness into the stories that I tell the children
What political meaning should we make of this stage in our general catastrophe? How can we learn from present disasters to prepare for still-harder futures?
Bennett: How Is He Doing?
“In the Jewish tradition, my body belongs to God… We have a fiduciary duty to God to take care of our bodies and that means preventive care as well as curative care.”
It’s one thing to engage in civil dialogue while expressing our disagreements; it’s quite another to lash out and lecture one another while ignoring our radically different predicaments.