While The Storms Rage: Thinking of Van Gogh

April 25, 2025

In these hyper-tense times, Rabbi Hirsch worries we’ve become “so overwhelmed with the fury of our relentless politics as to leave little time or space for Jewish reflection.” And while Judaism demands we involve ourselves in the political process, he says, it is also “filled with teachings about how to stay rooted while storms rage all around us…”