Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Texting. Phone calls. Email. There are more ways today for people to connect with others than ever in history. And yet . . . researchers have suggested that, despite this increase in communication, the ease of travel, and the wealth of information that is now available at the push of a finger or the click of a mouse and despite the large number of “friends” we may have on Facebook, most people today are more lonely and more isolated than ever before. We have a deficit of “social capital,” a term used to refer to the resources – help, support, friendship, empathy, care, concern – that are available to us through our social connections. It is the opposite of isolation and loneliness. It is cohesion, friendship, and the sup- port of an accepting community. And we need that friendship and support; the need is built into our very humanness. “It is not good for Man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18) is, as Rabbi Joseph Soloveit- chik said in a different context, “a permanent ontological principle rooted in the very depth of the human personality.”

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