Honoring Their Lives, Not Their Deaths
The name of this week’s Torah portion is Vayechi, which means “and he lived.” Ironically, it focuses more on Jacob’s …
Category Archives: mortality
On Living and Dying
We’re all going to die. I’m not being gloomy, just truthful. The problem is that we don’t like to think …
The Power of Poetry
When I was young I dreamt of being a famous poet and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, and maybe …
