It is difficult to make sense of the recent terror attack at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in which a lone terrorist murdered eight young men — boys, really — as they sat and studied Torah. How are we to understand such a tragedy. Maybe someday someone will look back and find some solace in the [...]
Archive for March, 2008
From Evil to Good
Posted in Uncategorized on Sunday, March 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From Rockets to Rock n’ Roll
Posted in Events, Ideas, tagged Enthusiasm in Judaism, Herzfeld, Sderot on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A friend and colleague of mine, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, recently led a group of his congregants from Washington, DC to Israel to express solidarity with the people of Sderot. Here are some of his beautiful thoughts:
All together there were 27 of us. It was ten o’clock at night. Some of the group had never been to Israel before [...]
