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When the collapse of old dreams leads to the flowering of new ones
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I noticed this week, at the Shabbat table in two different homes, and in a series of conversations at work and around the neighborhood cafés, that I keep hearing people use the phrase “the collapse of civilization.” As in, “what we’re witnessing — in Europe, the United States, and even in Israel to a degree — is not this leader or that party, this issue or that inanity, but rather the (to us) depressing realization that, writ large, Western civilization as we knew it is collapsing.
That’s certainly how I…
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