The Artistry of the Tallit
Wrapping oneself in a tallit can evoke transcendent emotions as the wearer is enveloped in a “robe of light.”

Wrapping oneself in a tallit can evoke transcendent emotions as the wearer is enveloped in a “robe of light.”

A collection of derashot delivered within the darkness of the Warsaw Ghetto, the result is one of the most important sustained engagements with the problem of evil and hester panim in Jewish history.
We are repeatedly summoned in the Torah “to be holy.” The exhortation
features prominently at the beginning of parshat Kedoshim where it is based upon the Creator’s own holiness. We are to be “holy” for He is “holy.”1