Threads of Hope: An Act of Kindness

A young boy in a blue shirt and black pants walks along a sunlit outdoor path, gently leading a small goat. The background features various household items and structures, with another person partially visible on the right.

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 […]