Sublime

Life is the story you tell yourself. But how you tell that story—are you a hero, victim, lover, warrior, caretaker, believer—matters a great deal. How you adapt that story—how you revise, rethink, and rewrite your personal narrative as things change, lurch, or go wrong in your life—matters even more.

When he was seventeen, Gruen learned of the Uganda Plan discussions at the Sixth Zionist Congress and was livid that the movement would even consider giving up on the notion of a Jewish state in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland.

That is why the histories of the Bible remain so fresh millennia after they were first recorded. They belong to the moment at which man first discovered the individual.

Relationships are difficult, even for these archetypal figures. But they take place in a moral context—the family as the place within which, even if we have to struggle with others and ourselves, we learn what it is to be human.