My beloved teacher and friend, Rabbi Jim Ponet, once told me, “Everything is either an expression of love or a cry for love.”

I agreed then. I agree now.

Since then I’ve tried to retrain my ear to hear the cacophony of the world as that expression or that cry.

Ahava Sculpture, Israel Museum, Photograph by Yishay Shavit
Ahava Sculpture, Israel Museum, Photograph by Yishay Shavit
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