To weep is to sow. To laugh is to reap. Look at this man weeping as he goes. And now, see him coming back in joy. Because he bears in his arms the sheaves of the harvest.
Laughter is the tangible harvest, plenitude.
Hope is not in laughter and plentitude. Hope is in tears, in the risk and in its silence. Jewish scholar and philosopher, born in Alsace, who was one of the spiritual leaders of the young intellectuals of the French-speaking world after the liberation of France. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was recently invited to be a Jewish Bible scholar in a PBS special on Genesis. She has gained great acclaim through her weekly lectures in Jerusalem, in which she ranges across literature, cultures and time to delve into the Bible's lessons on life.