Depending on when you come of age, certain songs, movies and news stories become your references.  This is amusing when nineties kids meet Gen Z kids; it may be less funny for our own kids, whose reference points are Coronavirus and October 7th.  Will they one day feel nostalgic for these moments?

Rav Yehuda Amital, my Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat Har Etzion, was a Holocaust survivor.  He arrived in then-Palestine in 1944, studied in various Israeli yeshivot, and fought in the War of Independence.  Rav Amital would contrast his perspective with ours: his students had all been born into a world where the existence of the State of Israel was a given.  I miss him this week as we swung from the sadness of Yom........

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