As I write, the Jewish community is experiencing deep, raw, visceral pain. The re-opened wound is not only the fact of what happened to the Bibas children and their mother before and at the time of their deaths. [...]

Are we truly aware of the rich theological resources that open up when we respond – perhaps unthinkingly, automatically and habitually – to the priest’s greeting Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you) with the customary formula Et cum spiritu tuo (And with your spirit)? The extraordinary beauty inherent in this brief exchange or, rather, in the space opened up by a few simple words spoken with clarity, deserves careful analysis, which we would like to offer in this article as a small contribution to reflection on synodality. [...]