Here’s to 5785, a year of healing, hope, and besuros tovos for Klal Yisrael
IT was a year unlike any other in recent memory.
The morning of Simchas Torah 5784 shattered our collective innocence. As the news trickled in —what happened? How many had fallen? Hostages taken?! — the day’s unbridled joy gave way to the piercing, keening sorrow of a nation shocked and bereft. It took time for the details of the horror’s magnitude to spread and for its full weight to sink in, but one thing was clear: The state of our world was forever altered.
The year of 5784 was one of confusion, a year in which we turned to our gedolim for wisdom in the fog of uncertainty. As the bedrock of our public and private lives shifted beneath the relentless pressure of a world in turmoil, voices of global leaders grew louder and bolder, their critical views on Israel and the Jewish people more pointed than ever before.
The story of 5784 unfolded at both breakneck speed and a maddeningly slow pace, each day packed with updates that left us reeling — and rarely with the good news we so desperately sought. Yet even in the face of relentless tragedy, our holy nation fought to replace horror with hope, and images of unity, faith, and solidarity emerged, offering glimpses of resilience on an unprecedented scale.
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