Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
God’s larger dream: a world in which human dignity is real, and the presence of God is manifest.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The book of Exodus here brings a key aspect of Jewish theology to light: for the accomplishment of divine aims, God chooses to need people.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By any standards this is a radical vision—certainly for the early Christian community itself, which at that time was still loyal to the basic principles of Judaism and looked on Paul as a dangerous schismatic. For them, the key element of their belief was that the Messiah had come—and by Messiah they meant what Jews understood by the term— namely,
... See moreJonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
It is an exercise in what Wiesel’s friend and teacher, the great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, spoke of as the religious calling to be maladjusted with positive moral force, neither indifferently conformed to the reality of evil and suffering, nor inured to wondrous and redemptive possibilities we can make real.