The Torah portion Chayei Sarah—“the life of Sarah”—begins with Sarah’s death. The contrast is deliberate. The Torah’s concern is not merely with the end of her days but with the meaning of her days. It records Abraham’s memorialization of Sarah’s…
Month: November 2025
Vayera – A Rock Feels No Joy
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel once sang, I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries. In those few lines, they captured something hauntingly prophetic — the isolation of…