Struggling with Holiness and Power: Selected Essays, 2025
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This book was written in a year when the world felt heavy with memory and fear, when ancient Jewish questions returned with urgency:
-Where is God in all this?
- What does holiness demand when Jews are once again under threat?
- How do we wield power without losing our soul?
These 138 essays were written in real time—amid grief, resilience, protest, prayer, and hope. They are not polished answers. They are dispatches from inside the struggle: wrestling with holiness and power, love and fear, vulnerability and responsibility. They reflect a year shaped by October 7, by the prayer to bring them home, by the return of the hostages, and by renewed reminders that Jewish safety is never theoretical.
At the heart of the book is a conviction our tradition insists upon: holiness is not purity or perfection—it is persistence. It is showing up with courage, protecting life while keeping our hearts soft, refusing both erasure and moral numbness. Power and holiness are uneasy companions, but the Torah demands both: to act, and to act with conscience.
There is also fierce, defiant joy in these pages—because joy, too, is an act of resistance and faith. This book begins where holiness always begins: in struggle. In the refusal to abandon one another. In the stubborn belief that even now, perhaps especially now, the world is redeemable.
Grateful to share this work, and grateful to walk this path together.
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