History is for the living

Understanding ourselves in the context of this narrative heals one of the most fundamental wounds that our culture inflicts on us: the myth that we are alone and without history.

A rabbi once told me that, though every physical remnant of my Jewish history was burned in the Holocaust, the lost stories lived in my bones.

Imagine how many stories are hiding under the cover of prehistory, and how many lifestyles, organizing principles, and value systems have come and gone since the real beginning of time.