Some Things Are Unimaginable

Hearing about barbarism is one thing, but staring straight at its rank, naked expression is another. That is exactly why we cannot look away — we need to be changed.

AP/Hatem Ali
Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian into the Gaza Strip from Kibbutz Kfar Azza on October 7, 2023. AP/Hatem Ali

Some things are unimaginable because they extend beyond the boundaries of what we allow ourselves to imagine. Yet videos streaming out of Israel over the last two days are tragic reminders that nothing is unimaginable. Jews should already know this, but prosperity has a way of muting memory and encouraging us to live in denial.

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