40 Years Ago:  MLK, Death & Resurrection

 Death and Resurrection?

Christian theology, of course, centers on that rhythm. Traditional Jewish prayerbooks also praise the God Who “gives life to the dead,” but most modern Jews have either deleted or bowdlerized or ignored that passage. Forty years ago, I was the kind of activist secular Jew who not only ignored that passage, but ignored the prayerbook altogether.

Yet  precisely forty years ago I experienced a profound – and profoundly unexpected –-  death-and-rebirth of my own self, deeply intertwined with the American agonies of that spring, that year.

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