What do we owe the generations that came before us, and what do we want future generations to inherit from us? When do we preserve the past, and when do we break from it? In this episode of TEXTing IRL, Elana Stein Hain and Hartman research fellow Tamara Mann Tweel dig into Parashat Yitro, uncovering how the commandment to honor parents is about more than caretaking; it’s about learning to see the past with weight, reverence, and generosity.



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The Mishkan: The Jewish Art of Building and Becoming — with Tamara Mann Tweel

In this special series, TEXTing: IRL – Ideas for Real Life, host&nbsp;Elana Stein Hain&nbsp;sits down with guests who are accomplished practitioners in their fields to explore how classic and modern Jewish texts can help us&nbsp;wrestle with&nbsp;and act with integrity in the face of&nbsp;the big dilemmas of our time.


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