A Yom Ha'atzmaut Message
Redemption involves a movement… from the periphery of history to its center… To be on the periphery means to be a non-history-making entity, while movement towards the center renders the same entity history-making and history-conscious… A history-making people is one that leads a speaking, storytelling, [and] free existence. —Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, “Redemption, Prayer, Talmud Torah” We—the rabbis of Bergen County—have a story to tell you.