Ilana Kurshan, in conversation with Adam Taub, invites listeners into the book-lined home she has built with her family, where reading aloud nurtures wonder, soothes squabbles, and helps make sense of life’s daily rhythms. She reflects on how literature and Torah intertwine in her family’s life, and how both reading and parenting are acts of sacred devotion. As in her memoir, Children of the Book, she explores the surprising resonances between biblical text and lived experience – from the picture books that create the world through language for babies, to the link between libraries – including the National Library of Israel – as sacred shrines, to the moment children begin reading on their own, leaving us atop the mountain as they enter new lands without us. With her characteristic blend of humour and tenderness, Kurshan traces “that fine line where recollection meets aspiration,” offering a luminous meditation on parenthood, memory, and the sacred art of reading together.