The Politics of Responsibility

A nation that sees itself as responsible for the evils that befall it, is also a nation that has an inextinguishable power of recovery and return.

“We the People”

The Sages said: “‘They will stumble over each other’” – read this as ‘stumble because of one another’: this teaches that all Israelites are responsible for one another.” This is an exceedingly strange passage. Why locate this principle here?

The Power of a Curse

The Birth of Hope

Bechukotai 5779

Bechukotai 5779

The Ever-Repeated Story