Yehudah Mirsky
By Yehudah Mirsky
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Life Amid COVID-19, a powerful lesson about inwardness
The last two weeks have thrust us all into a frightening new reality. Coronavirus, COVID-19, has flooded our lives , upending routines, exposing the fragilities – and regular imbecilities – of our social, economic and especially political structures, challenging us to rethink how to relive our lives, so that we can go on, literally, living…
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Opinion Stop Being So Triggered. This Yom Kippur, Commit To Ending The Outrage
There are, in our world, forces of light and forces of darkness. We want to stand with one and against the other. But is that where we want to be standing on Yom Kippur? It is a perennial question, but more cutting today. Many of us took the post-Cold War liberal consensus, in which most…
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Opinion Rav Kook’s Love-Hate Relationship
Tisha B’Av comes early this year, which seems grimly appropriate given the deep sense of foreboding in Israel, and in Jerusalem, the hatreds from without and within pendant in the air. It is commonplace around Tisha B’Av to recall the famous talmudic dictum that the Temple was destroyed because of sinat chinam, baseless or freely…
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