Dear Readers,
This newsletter is not dead, and work has not ceased on upcoming posts. In fact, the thing about Mount Sinai, the one that was next according to that incredibly optimistic schedule I published near the beginning of 2023 (this series of posts was meant to be finished by Shavuot last year), is at around the 3500-word mark. I will complete it soon, and then the next one, and then the next one. The adrift year, the annus horribilis 2023, feels like it’s finally receding, and I am tinkering on beautiful things to fill the future.
We are now in the month of Adar, the Jewish month of joy. To that end, I wish to share one of this newsletter's current inspirations. It is a wonderful short essay by Robert Louis Stevenson called “The Lantern-Bearers.” It, like all my recent writing, is about how “no man lives in the external truth.” It contends that “to miss the joy is to miss all.” And in case you don’t want to read it yourself, I’ve read it for you.
Love,
Tzvi
The Lantern-Bearers