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The prophet of consolation prophesied (Isaiah 60: 4–5): “Lift up your eyes and look about; they have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, your daughters like babes on…
In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
And now, why is it that I ask you, and beg of you, like a son who begs of his father, that you do everything that you possibly can to emigrate to this holy place? If there is no other reason, then it…
The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ]
The…
This period of time is marked by four phenomena. Three of them concern everyone, and one concerns religious youth specifically.
1. Despair…
From the rabbis and geonim of the holy city of Safed, may it be speedily rebuilt in our days, sent to Modena, may God protect it, in 5370 [1610]He shall be called a holy man [see Isaiah 4:3]; the…