September 11, 2025

The BEST: Mines #19

Returning to The BEST, Chaim Strauchler writes on Edward Burtynsky’s photograph “Mines #19” and the paradox of modern beauty and devastation. At first a majestic landscape, closer inspection reveals a mountain dismantled by industry. Burtynsky’s large-scale photographs recall our dual role as stewards and exploiters of creation, echoing a fundamental biblical tension.
September 9, 2025

An Opening to Intellectual Humility

Sometimes we forget that others looked at problems we face and sugyot we study long before we arrived. Avraham Stav shares the message of the IDF’s really lousy can openers distributed with the army’s combat rations—and its message for anyone sitting in front of an open Gemara, contemplating how the unfamiliar sometimes appears to our naive or cynical eyes as strange.
September 7, 2025

R. David Ebner z”l

Rabbi David Ebner zt”l, who passed away today in Jerusalem, was an educator who combined sensitivity, passion, poetry, and warmth with keen intellectual rigor and profound moral integrity. Read his 1992 contribution to TRADITION’s “Divided and Distinguished Worlds” symposium.
September 7, 2025

Symposium Response: Divided and Distinguished Worlds

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