As we prepare this week for Yom Kippur we will bring our readers a new daily offering from the TRADITION Archive offering insight and teaching for the High Holy Day.  52 years ago the Jewish world found itself in a situation not terribly dissimilar from our own. War arrived brutally and by surprise on an Autumn Yom Tov. Writing in the pages of TRADITION a half-century ago, Rabbi A.H. Rabinowitz, Chief Rabbi of the Air Force, asked “Why Yom Kippur?”—aside from Egyptian tactical strategy and hope for surprise, what was the spiritual meaning of the State being attacked on our holy day?

What might R. Soloveitchik have thought about anti-aging interventions? Responding to Jason Weiner’s recent TRADITION essay, Shlomo Zuckier draws on teachings of the Rav to suggest that extending life through medical intervention aligns with his vision of lessening human suffering and approaching redemption.