Jul 12, 2026 · 5 min · 5 segments
What happens when every support system disappears at once? Rabbi Shlomo Levin connects the Artemis II astronauts' 40 minutes of silence behind the Moon, a mentor's method of leaving troubled teenagers…
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He would take a group of four or five teenagers to the Jerusalem Forest in the dead of night, drop them off one by one, and leave them entirely without communication or means of navigation until the morning.
This story popped into my head while reading about the four astronauts on the Artemis II mission, the first human beings in history to pass behind the far side of the moon.
Well, admittedly, at a superficial level, the story of the troubled teenagers and the heroic epoch-making journey of the astronauts bears little resemblance.
He would take a group of four or five teenagers to the Jerusalem Forest in the dead of night, drop them off one by one, and leave them entirely without communication or means of navigation until the morning.
This story popped into my head while reading about the four astronauts on the Artemis II mission, the first human beings in history to pass behind the far side of the moon.
Well, admittedly, at a superficial level, the story of the troubled teenagers and the heroic epoch-making journey of the astronauts bears little resemblance.
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