Covenant & Conversation

There are laws in Judaism about the limits of grief – shiva, sheloshim, a year. There is no such thing as a bereavement for which grief is endless. And yet Jacob refuses to be comforted.

We live life looking forward but we understand it only by looking back.

Each of us knows that there is only one of us, and that there are seven billion others in the world today. What conceivable difference can we make?