Sublime

I find it striking that so many different religious traditions work to expose this sense that “I am the center of the universe” as a dangerous illusion.

beyond the headlines of dramatic life changes are almost always longer, slower, and more interesting journeys.

movements. The answer lies in a historic redefinition of the term “Orthodoxy.” In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, certain traditionalist rabbis began to reassess the fruits of Emancipation. And they found its social and ethical values not so wanting. Individualism, liberalism, and universalism—the hallmarks of modernity—turned ou

how can the American Jewish community foster more Empowered Jews?

Rabbi Louis Rieser.

The rabbis demystified holiness; they democratized it, making it less a function of spiritual genius than of personal self-discipline.

God wants to be loved with the whole of our hearts, then whether and in what way we involve our hearts in our religious lives is pivotal.

David Teiger, a New York–based collector in his late seventies.

ameliorated.