Suffering is common to all; life is a wheel; prosperity is unstable. When you have wealth, stretch out your hand to the poor. Of that which God has given you, give of it to the needy. Let all of life…
Joel Swanson
Joel Swanson is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds a PhD in the History of Judaism from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his writing has appeared in Haaretz, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
