Sublime

It’s as if, notes Rabbi Telushkin, the Hebrew Bible is one long answer to the question Cain asked in its earliest pages: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”*6 (Spoiler alert: The answer is yes.)

The early years were desperately difficult. The new state, with no financial reserves and very little infrastructure, suddenly had to absorb masses of immigrants much larger than its own population. Jews from North Africa, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere came to Israel by the hundreds of thousands when their host countries expelled them after the Jewish

Un détail : en quittant son pays, il laissera derrière lui une trentaine de recueils, composés et reliés par ses soins, d’autres poètes. Car, dit-il au passage, « cela fait partie de mon programme de vie de m’intéresser aux autres ».