Anniversary Essay | Time Traveling with Moment

Anniversary Essay | Time Traveling with Moment

We Jews are time travelers. We spend our lives remembering the past, wringing wisdom from it, then trying to hold onto it. When we’re not ruminating about the past, we’re anxiously scanning the present for danger (especially the past two years!) and worrying about the future. It doesn’t matter that our messianic tradition promises peace and redemption, or geulah in Hebrew, a word referring to deliverance from a difficult spiritual or physical situation. Even in our fourth millennium as a people, we continue to quarrel among ourselves as to whether we will get to the world to come mitzvah...

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