PERSPECTIVES → SECOND THOUGHTS Issue 1066 · June 18, 2025

Things Change — but Then Again…

Our Creator, just like His chosen people, is still here. That will never change

Things Change — but Then Again…

IT is June, 1967, and family and I are living in Israel during a sabbatical year. We are today in the anxious first moments of what will be the Six Day War, and we hear conflicting reports about how it is going.

In between air-raid alarms, I am sitting in our kitchen with our seven-year-old daughter. She asks me: “Abba, what is a bomb?”

“A bomb is something that can hurt you.”

“I know I know. But what is it?”

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