December 5, 2024
This week TraditionOnline ran a series of excerpts from three new books that have been written and published from within the fog of war; each aiming to offer religious insight and respond to the traumas of our collective Jewish experiences since Simchat Torah 2023. In this podcast we chat with Erica Brown, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, and Moshe Taragin about their writing, the challenge of responding “from the gut” in real time, and how powerful and responsive works of this nature impact in their moment and resonate across the years.
December 4, 2024
“Az Nashir—We Will Sing Again” is an anthology of prayers written by 55 Jewish women in Israel responding to the experiences and struggles of living in Israel in a post-October 7th world. These prayers have given voice to the myriad of complex emotions, ideas, needs, and hopes that have arisen in our time. In an excerpt presented at TraditionOnline, Rachel Sharansky Danziger offers two powerful prayers—for brotherhood and for focus.
December 3, 2024
Nothing could have prepared us for the nightmarish horrors of October 7th. As dark clouds descend upon the Jewish nation and people our faith is being severely tested. In the essays collected in his new book, R. Moshe Taragin shares his thoughts as they have evolved since Simchat Torah 2023, mining the wisdom of Tanakh and Hazal for their insights to our current situation. “Redeeming history is a long process,” he writes, “but we know how it ends. One day we will have clarity. Until then, we have faith…”
December 2, 2024
For the first offering in this week’s TraditionOnline “War Writing” series, we share a sample chapter from Erica Brown’s meditative “Morning Has Broken: Faith After October 7th.” In this chapter, “Getting Better to Get Worse,” the author braids personal reflections and Jewish texts about faith, unity, pain, and hope during this war in Israel and in response to antisemitism everywhere.
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