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Five Years Since Passing, Rabbi Sacks Still Speaks to Our Fractured World
In today’s world, Rabbi Sacks’ message feels more urgent than ever: that God continues to believe in humanity.
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A Brief History of Rationality, from the Biblical Age to Now
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The Sabbath was a concept even before it was given as an official commandment, and it has been a pillar of the Jewish People for all time.
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How to Comfort: Three Talmudic Teachings for Our Time
“During the course of a lifetime, virtually no one can avoid an encounter with death. Yet it is an experience for which one is rarely prepared.” — Dr. Emanuel Rackman
Forgetting Someone
Renowned Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai offers profound thought in his poems, “Death of My Father” and “Forgetting Someone.”
Losing a Friend
If being lost means the inability to find one’s way or to miss something that cannot be recovered, then the death of a friend makes us disoriented and adrift.
Sundays with Halivni
For 15 years, my weekly calls with Professor Rabbi David Weiss Halivni were the highlight of my week. Now that he’s gone, Sundays will never be the same.
Do We Still Mourn the Churban?
Tears do not come easily to Tisha B’Av for us all. Rabbi Joshua Berman explores the reason why.
Suffering and Love
Rotem was diagnosed with cancer when she was three and a half years old. She died when she was seven.
Readers Respond: What Is Tisha B’Av Today?
A day for tears, yearning, mourning, and hope: 18Forty readers share what the Beit HaMikdash’s absence means for them today.
The Impossibility of Understanding Loss
The strangeness of death, of loss, is that no matter how many books we read, how many philosophical discussions we have, how many psychologists we speak with, how many times we experience it, it will always be elusive—impossible to understand.
What Facebook’s COO Learned From Grief
In one of 18Forty’s Must Reads, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg opens up about the loss of her husband.In ‘WandaVision,’ Timely Jewish Wisdom About Coping With Loss
In one of 18Forty’s Must Reads, Rabbi Shmuel Hain writes what a Marvel superhero and the ancient rabbis both knew: Grief is just love persevering.Passing Through Moed Katan—and Life
In one of 18Forty’s Must Reads, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin writes how, in Tractate Moed Katan, the Talmud teaches us the only life lesson we need.
Feeling and Healing
Human emotions are intense and, sometimes, incredibly painful. To avoid that hurt, we seek to escape into distraction to “take our mind off everything.” That’s a mistake.