My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

an ALS patient who said his fatal disease “cured him of planning.”

all I seem to do is plan, and how would my days change if they had more space and spontaneity?

This holiday of Passover is indisputably oriented toward the younger generation. The Torah repeats and repeats: Tell it to the children. They’ll grow up to be the tellers. When the children disengage, we’ve failed the mitzvah.