Threads of Hope: Maoz Inon

A group of smiling individuals greet a prominent religious leader on stage at a large outdoor event, with a crowd visible in the background. The atmosphere is warm and engaged as they shake hands.

Hope is hard to find these days. I rediscovered it in the most unlikely and obvious of places: Israel. Rabbi and scholar, Dr. Michael Marmur, who made aliyah from London 40 years ago, notes that the Hebrew word for hope, tikvah, builds from the root kav, meaning “cord, line.” He cites a Jewish mystical teaching […]