While sitting in the Miklat (shelter) just last week, an idea from my beloved teacher Rav Yitz Greenberg kept reverberating in me. He included it in his magnum opus The Triumph of Life where he wrote: “There is this gut feeling (in Jews) that the hopes and efforts of past generations will not end on their watch.”

During the middle days of Passover, when the usual greeting we share is “Moadim LiSimchah” (translation: The holidays must lead us to joy!), there were those here in Jerusalem who wittingly shared, “Moadim LiShigrah” (translation: The holidays lead us to Routine!). Now usually “routine” denotes the mundane and even the boring. Here in Israel to have a shigrah (routine) comes with tremendous weight –........

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