Memory is Not Victimhood
Jewish cemeteries are often called Beit HaChayim—the House of the Living. That phrase is a rebuke. Judaism refuses to define identity through death, suffering, or
Jewish cemeteries are often called Beit HaChayim—the House of the Living. That phrase is a rebuke. Judaism refuses to define identity through death, suffering, or
On the eve of Yom Kippur, a man once stopped the Berditchever Rebbe Rabbi Levi Yitzḥak (1740–1809), on his way to the synagogue, and said:


If the TaNaKh, Israel’s Foundational Literature, had nothing to say to the moment we are living, it certainly would not merit much of our attention.