Written on Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance and reflection on the suffering and murder of six million Jews—one third of our people.

After these years of war and ongoing terror attacks in Eretz Yisrael, we are left with a painful and constant question: how are we meant to understand what is happening, and what are we meant to do with it?

We are not trying to explain it in a full way. We do not have that kind of clarity. The more we live through it, the more we see that the real question is not why it is happening, but how we are meant to respond while it is happening. There is no clear system that gives answers. We live day to day with war, threats from many sides, and fear that does not settle into understanding.

Why is this happening? Why again? Why still?

We ask, but we do not get answers that satisfy us. And the truth is that we are not meant to build our lives on full answers to this question. We are........

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