If the memorials leave our bodies with more fear than love, more fear than trust, more fear than faith in the occupier of tents on the other side of the river, the horror will repeat itself. We have outgrown our skins. We are become new species unrecognizable to our youths, to our ancestors. And still their merit blesses us.

— Rabbi Zachi Asher, New Ancestors, The Epichorus, Temenos, 2025