September 22, 2024
The Hebrew anthology “One Day in October” (Maggid Books), now released in an English translation, is a powerful collection of forty stories from October 7th that inspires and depresses, fills the reader with hope, as it makes him or her cry. Yitzchak Blau shows how editors Yair Agmon and Oriya Mevorach skillfully transformed these accounts into narrative chapters which will serve as a “first draft” in documenting the stories of Simhat Torah 5784.
September 19, 2024
Chaim Strauchler extrapolates from the earworm to a term he coins the “Torah worm.” At seemingly random points in the yearly public reading, community members join the ba’al keria in singing a phrase from the Torah reading. This installment of “TRADITION Questions” asks what unites the texts that become Torah worms? What do such Torah worms say about public Torah reading and about modern Jewish life?
September 17, 2024
As we approach Simhat Torah and one turn around the calendar since last year’s trauma, how should we adjust our upcoming prayers and celebrations? Avraham Stav considers what it means to cycle through the familiarity of the Jewish year and its holidays when even the familiar returns to us with alienation.
September 16, 2024
TRADITION and the Rabbinical Council of America recently hosted R. Mosheh Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion, for a conversation revisiting a classic essay from our archives: R. Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l, “The Ideology of Hesder” (Fall 1981), using it as a lens to explore contemporary issues in Israeli religious and civilian life and society and the particular challenges of the current war. Listen to a recording of the conversation on the Tradition Podcast.
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