Sublime

Using this alternate route, the Harel Brigade (under the command of Yitzhak Rabin, then twenty-six years old) succeeded in resupplying and defending the western parts of the city—but they were still unable to recapture the Old City.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

So too, there are people who have a natural desire for connecting to God through mitzvot that are directly focused on God (bein adam la’Makom), while they may not strongly desire to be involved in mitzvot that are directed toward ethics (bein adam l’chavero). Conversely, there are some

Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.

Communication and interaction are nurtured across all formal and informal boundaries.

Many Jewish thinkers see judging others favorably as key to the fulfillment of all interpersonal obligations more broadly.

I reported to the same jumble of buildings on the same base where I’d arrived a decade earlier as an eighteen-year-old fresh from basic training, when Sayeret Matkal was still a gleam in Avraham Arnan’s eye. Now, I would be the first sayeret commander to have served in the unit as a soldier and young officer. Avraham’s initial ambitions had been mo

Hadar was originally founded on the radical notion that a service that is egalitarian could run as fast as a nonegalitarian service.