The Essential Vulnerability of the Stranger

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January 12 2023
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In all the years I've wrestled with Torah text, few things have occupied my desire to understand how being a stranger is essential to who we are, as Jews and as human beings. We "sojourn here but for a blink of an eye." My exploration was rooted primarily in intellect, in the joy and rigor of Jewish learning. On December 5th, at 7:30 in the morning, the limits of my understanding became painfully clear when my dear Clary - Rivka Sarah bat R' Yehoshua - was taken from me. To say she was 'my everything" is an understatement.

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today in memory of PRZ, Reb Zeilig z"l and Bobby Lola z"l, & Zeidy Benci z”l and Bubby Perla z"l, Yosef Malachi Geudalia HY"D, Ben Zussman HY"D, and Oma Els z"l and by Adele Brody in memory of her father, Aaron Nussbacher and by Vivian & Mauricio Gluck l'ilui nishmas Gittel Tova bas Abraham Chaim HaLevy and by the Spira family l'ilui nishmat Chanoch ben Moshe Chaim, Dr. Thomas Spira and in loving memory of Dr. Felix Glaubach, אפרים פישל בן ברוך, to mark his first yahrtzeit, by Miriam, his children, grandchildren & great grandchildren