When the Walls of Metaphor Can't Hold
"What [Jordan’s] asking in a sense, by asking what happens when the walls of metaphor can’t hold us, is what happens to our religious language and our religious practice when it’s up against the wall? What happens when it has to withstand what he calls the ‘winds of life’ that shake us to our core? Does it have anything to offer at all?" — Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
Class of 2015 alumnus Rabbi Jordan Braunig’s essay, read by Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, brings us into an unsettling and deeply personal story of love and fragility, giving us an account of a time when it’s so difficult to express the complexity of emotion, that even the walls of metaphor cannot hold.
