US gun massacres are preventable
I am not quite as despondent as Kamerow about the aftermath of the US school shooting on Valentine’s day,1 but I am angry about what has been allowed to happen.

Only a few US households (probably one in three) possess guns, and just over …
Yet another US massacre with a semi-automatic rifle
Can outraged Florida students move us to action this time?
The Tsadik and His Soul’s Sparks: From Kabbalah to Hasidism
The present study shows the continuity between the Safedian Kabbalistic view of the relations between the sparks of a certain soul, and the Hasidic theory, that was conceived of as innovated by and characteristic of 18th century Hasidism, as to the responsibility of the Tsadik for the sparks that belongs to his soul. In the two literatures, the rescue of a spark of one's soul is related to the beautiful captive woman that is conceived of as an externalization of an inner dimension of the righteous person, immersed in a shell.