Mareh Makom

Silence

• The power of silence and the importance of speech: When do words heal, and when do they wound?
  Is silence truly golden, or is speech the very breath of our lives?
  My lord, I advocated for speech using speech, and this one comes to advocate for his using mine?!
• Silence: When silence becomes complicity in evil
  When does our silence become the greatest affliction of those who are harmed?
  all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained glass windows.
• Silence: when stillness becomes the lost art of contemplation
  In an age of endless chatter, has silence become a language we've lost?
  Today, it is difficult to find silences in civil society that extend beyond family drama.
• Silence: The power of quiet before fate and the mysteries of the soul
  When is silence more powerful than a thousand words?
  Rachel adopted the practice of silence: she saw her wedding gifts in the hands of her sister, and remained silent.
• Silence: when stillness is the most important right
  Why is the right to remain silent one of the most essential foundations of justice?
  nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,