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Why Is It Called Memory Foam? Yom Hazikaron reflections on ritual, grief and what remains
One of the recurring lines of the day is bemotam tzivu lanu chayim, “through their death they commanded us to live.” It is a difficult sentence, and perhaps it should be. It does not remove the tragedy of loss, nor explain it away. But it does insist that memory is not only about what we have lost. It is also about what the living must now carry.
We remember because grief does not stay present on its own, and ritual is what keeps memory from quietly slipping away.
Great Miracles are Happening Here and There!
We are one people, living in different places, speaking different languages, eating different food, even spinning dreidels differently. The five-sided dreidel doesn’t ask us to erase our differences, but to embrace them. It asks us to recognize that “here” and “there” are not opposites; they are part of the same story. Indeed, we are the people of here and there.
Why We Persist, How We Thrive
The Z3 Conference 2025 is approaching and this year we are digging into understanding our “why” in order to properly determine the “how”.
