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on this the world endures

sources on making war and peace

on this the world endures
Image of Tehran, bombed. (Twilight, city from a distance, and something's on fire and a lot of very black smoke is coming up in the sky.)

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Once again, we open the news and bombs are dropping.
Good people in many places are cowering, trying to stay safe.
The damage is beginning to pile up.

How are you doing? How is your heart?

This is a place for us to talk about this stuff.

Let's try something different.

I'm going to start with some questions, which maybe you can try to answer by jotting down your answer on a piece of paper (tree or digital) before you get to the sources on Judaism, war, peace, and more that you'll see below. And then maybe you'll see how the same questions land after visiting the texts?

I'd love to hear how this is for you.

War is:

Engaging in war is:

Civilian casualties in war are:

Preemptive military action is:

Alternatives to war include:

The relationship between personal ethics and war ethics is:

The person or people who should decide on the ethics of war is/are:

My heart right now is:

Here are some sources with which to engage around war that might be surprising, given, well, what we so often see on the ground.

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