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Every day, we are faced with choices about how to be good participants in the world, in our country, in our neighborhood, and in the Jewish community. Sometimes, when the burden feels too great and the pressures of our individual lives too heavy, we turn away from the burden of community and the gifts that emerge from helping -- even if momentarily. We may do so for reasons of fatigue, or lack of time, or our designated tzedakah funds are depleted, or because a particular issue doesn't resonate with our passions. Ironically, watching and absorbing the suffering of others can sometimes harden our hearts rather than opening them. This issue of Sh'ma explores empathy: when and why it gets triggered in our hearts and brains and what it takes to make us into more compassionate and caring individuals. It also explores a related question: What does it mean to be a compassionate society in an America built on an ethos of rugged individualism? How can we reconcile that American ethos with a Judaism that insists on our knowing the heart of the stranger?
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