The Dog that Doesn’t Bark
When the need for help is transparent, the Jewish community generally rallies and swings into action. But what happens when it’s not so obvious?
Rabbi Hutner on Chanukah and the Talmudic Creative Mind
Time and again we have to face the difficult task of defining ourselves in a world of alien values—the values of Western civilization. But now in the post Holocaust era our task seems more painful than ever. After the collapse of Western humanism and the no less astonishing triumph of Western technology—success and failure so deeply intermingled we see ourselves as outsiders, or in Bilaam’s words: “Am levaded yishkon, u’bagoyim lo yitchashev”—“It is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.”