What happens when we value the project more than the person? In her Kabbalat Shabbat kavannah on Parashat Noah, Rabbi Becca Weintraub turns to a midrash on the Tower of Babel in which people mourn a fallen brick more than a fallen worker. The story becomes a reminder of a fundamental truth we need again and again. No ideology, ambition, or accomplishment is more important than human life. Shabbat calls us back to that truth and to the sacred worth of every person.

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