Sublime

is using the Hebrew past to give depth to the Hebrew present and enable it to face the Hebrew future.

“Live Better, Help Often.”

in fact, all religious books just failed to capture her imagination—she was without the “civilizing influence” that mankind has always enforced upon its young.

Renowned Yale professor and happiness psychologist Dr. Laurie

by the sort of relatable dead Jews whom readers can really get behind: the mostly non-religious, mostly non-Yiddish-speaking ones whom noble people tried to save, and whose deaths therefore teach us something beautiful about our shared and universal humanity, replete with epiphanies and moments of grace.

And while Judaism offers plenty to engage children, much of its deepest, most transformative wisdom is really only accessible to adults.

“intentional intergenerational ministry.”[3]

After playing a crucial role in the shaping of modern Europe for more than two hundred years—think of Mendelssohn, Marx, Freud, Mahler, Kafka, Einstein—Jews will gradually leave center stage. The golden era of European Jewry will be over.

Hessed is the redemption of solitude, the bridge we build across the ontological abyss between I and Thou.