Thriving in Intensity: On Living at the Edge and Discovering It May Be the Center

Sound Arriving Like a Distant Lion

Thriving in Intensity: On Living at the Edge and Discovering It May Be the Center

From my home next to the Ari mikvah, the question is no longer theoretical.

“What we call the edge is not always where life breaks apart. Sometimes, it is where it gathers.”

“From a child in a sandbox first hearing that ‘people like us’ were once hunted in the “Holocaust”… to children in Tzfat gathering around the remnant of a טיל / rocket—something in the Jewish neshama does not move away. It moves closer.”

“The sound may arrive like a distant lion—but the center is always closer than the roar.”

Is this a pattern of living on the edge? Or running toward the center of the circle? When do we stop running?