Episode 26 Incense and Sensibility

To observe the ark of the Great Synagogue of Rome is to see how Roman Jews proclaimed Jewish vibrancy and endurance. 

An ancient plant used to produce the Temple's incense is reborn in the Holy Land.

Though the Temple in Jerusalem no longer stands, the spiritual obligation to guard the temple remains.

A tension at the heart of a great poem by Robert Frost, together with two mitzvot, helps reveal the Jewish view of the natural world.