Sublime

Hessed represents the idea that a gracious social order can never be constructed on the basis of rights and obligations alone.

There is a tradition that every holiday should be celebrated “half and half”—half for God and half for personal pleasure.

From the Mikveh Yisrael school they travel to the colony of Rishon LeZion. Baron Edmond de Rothschild is the colony’s sponsor and benefactor.

Imrei Yaakov (note 10) suggests that the obligation to accompany the animal

post-Holocaust Yiddish literature, which according to David Roskies is built on two pillars: utopian faith and collective lamentation.