Peter, I deeply appreciate your reflections on the emotional and philosophical underpinnings of our traditions. For those of us raised without religion, these traditions can seem baffling or even pointless. You always manage to bring home their historical context and their current relevance. Thank you, my friend.
Peter your reflections on Tisha B’Av moved me—the way memory, hunger, and loss are woven together into something enduring. But I wonder if grief can truly guide us if it ends at the borders of our own pain. I believe our people’s memory has its greatest power not when it shields us, but when it opens us to the suffering of others?
Compassion is the light that dims only when we view the "other" as not ourselves.
Richard, You’ve touched on something important here. Pain is among the most powerfully felt of human experiences. Empathy for the pain of others seizes on that power—and makes it holy.
Peter, I deeply appreciate your reflections on the emotional and philosophical underpinnings of our traditions. For those of us raised without religion, these traditions can seem baffling or even pointless. You always manage to bring home their historical context and their current relevance. Thank you, my friend.
Your comment is as good as it gets. Thank you.
Peter your reflections on Tisha B’Av moved me—the way memory, hunger, and loss are woven together into something enduring. But I wonder if grief can truly guide us if it ends at the borders of our own pain. I believe our people’s memory has its greatest power not when it shields us, but when it opens us to the suffering of others?
Compassion is the light that dims only when we view the "other" as not ourselves.
Beautiful explanation of this tradition.
Richard, You’ve touched on something important here. Pain is among the most powerfully felt of human experiences. Empathy for the pain of others seizes on that power—and makes it holy.
Well said. Memory allows us to honor the past, but also learn from it, and without that second part memory is simply a story without a moral.
Absolutely. T’som kal.
A good way to AWAKEN in the morning.
Thank You Peter!
Thank you. I had never heard of Tisha B'av.
Yasher koach!
Thank you good sir
Thank you
Profoundly beautiful!!
Amen