We Have a Togetherness Problem

By
Rabbi Sharon Brous

Shabbat Tetzaveh, PURIM 5777 Sermon. Rabbi Sharon Brous

Are Jews eternal outsiders—am levadad yishkon—or do we, as Heschel argued, stand on the brink of the abyss together? This story is as old as Purim, and couldn’t be more relevant today.

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