Kristina Swarner teams up once again with writer Howard Schwartz to explain the traditional Jewish concept of tikkun olam (the repair of the world), imagining a dialogue between a grandfather and granddaughter.

Swarner pictures grandfather and granddaughter gazing up at the star-spangled sky on a summer night ("Long, long ago... God sent forth ten vessels, like a fleet of ships, each carrying its cargo of light...")

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