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From time to time we need to step back from the noise and hubbub of the social world and create in our hearts the stillness of the desert where, within the silence, we can hear the kol demama daka, the still, small voice of God, telling us we are loved, we are heard, we are embraced by God’s everlasting arms, we are not alone.6 1.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
One must sacrifice mitzvot for the sake of man rather than sacrifice man “for the sake of mitzvot.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel • The Sabbath
Already blessed with the world itself, we are blessed further with a path for making our way through it—and, tradition teaches, with a God who accompanies us along the way.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
That is one of the striking differences between the synagogues and the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. In a cathedral you sense the vastness of God and the smallness of humankind. But in the Altneushul in Prague or the synagogues of the Ari and Rabbi Joseph Karo in Safed, you sense the closeness of God and the potential greatness of humankind. Many
... See moreJonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
These ideas were violently at odds with Judaism itself, which was and remained a religion of time and space, and which saw faith as bound to the physical life of the individual and society.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
pays more attention to generations, to events, than to countries, to things; it is more concerned with history than with geography.
Abraham Joshua Heschel • The Sabbath
the faith of a man who has considered the very real possibility that chaos and bloodshed are simply all there is.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
our Messianic hope is the expectation of a day, of the end of days.
Abraham Joshua Heschel • The Sabbath
Homeless in the world, our ancestors were at home in their faith. Today, at home everywhere, we have become paradigms of the homeless mind.