Personal Perspective: Family stories are powerful because they provide us with roadmaps for perseverance and strength.
History defines us as a people, as families, and as individuals.Last week, I was honored to speak at Friday night Sabbath services at The Temple in Atlanta, my hometown, about some of the research that my colleagues and I have done on family storytelling. For me, it was a moving and meaningful experience. Here are my remarks:
Essentially stories are the way in which we create meaning – we tell stories all the time. Think about dinner last night, going to work this morning, coming to temple this evening. As we catch up with our family and friends, even after just a day apart, let alone catching up with family and friends across longer times and distances, we tell about what happened – what we did, how we felt, and what we think. And we listen to their stories.
This does not mean that we all have the same story, the same interpretations, or the same emotions. Rather it means that we share a framework, a world view, that embeds us in a particular history. Our personal stories of October 7and the subsequent war is always explicitly or implicitly situated within our individual histories as Jews.
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