Passover Under the Shadow of War: The Challenge of Hope
4/1/202652 min
How do you celebrate the holiday of liberation when the reality of war, grief, and political division feels heavier than ever?
In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi confront the growing exhaustion in Israel with the conflicts in Iran and Lebanon, the profound grief interrupting daily life, and the internal fractures exposed by new government legislation. As they navigate these challenges, they reflect on what liberation means today, and grapple with the moral and spiritual questions of how to hold onto hope when the Jewish state is tested from both within and without.
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Donniel Hartman· Host0:06
October seventh is still enslaving us. Fear is still enslaving us. A culture of war is enslaving us. This Passover, I'm really gonna try to connect to hope.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host0:21
I'm in a different place, Daniel. I feel the hope already. The story is so powerful, it's so overwhelming, and it's such a profound source of hope and spiritual energy, and we don't have the language for it. And so every Seder is an opportunity to try to go just one layer deeper, both in terms of the language and, well, the way we tell the story.
Donniel Hartman· Host0:45
Yeah.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host0:45
I feel that challenge especially this year.
Donniel Hartman· Host0:48
[theme music] Hi, friends. This is Daniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi from the Shalom Hartman Institute, and this is our podcast, For Heaven's Sake, in collaboration with Arc Media. Today is March thirty-first, and our episode is entitled Passover in the Shadow of War. There's a cloud. It's more than just a shadow, Yossi. I feel it.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host1:24
Yeah.
Donniel Hartman· Host1:25
And Israeli society feels it. It's been a hard week.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host1:28
It's the