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The problem is that the rabbis he respects were almost all murdered.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Yet those markets about which Naomi Shemer had sung had not been uninhabited.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Unable to comprehend their own history, they cannot truly hear God’s message or speak their own redemption.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
An epidemic of deafness makes language futile. How should Moses speak in such a world?
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg • Moses: A Human Life (Jewish Lives)
God is no longer to be found in deeds but in the soul.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
replacing temple rituals with equally ritualized blessings and prayers, study of Torah, and elaborately regulated interpersonal ethics. The sages frantically arguing about when and how to recite which prayers are survivors and descendants of survivors, remnants of a destroyed world.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By living everyday life with a dimension of depth, people become at once more human and more holy.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The truth of our lives is the closest thing to us there is, as the Torah reminds us. It is right in front of our eyes. It is embedded in our bodies.