Sublime

One is the strong commitment to community.

An unspoken but underlying assumption of all this is that individual needs will at times be subordinate to the claims of family and community.

writing Hebrew ethical wills developed.

a critical eye and a loving heart at one and the same time.

When describing her relationship to Judaism, Blu Greenberg once wrote, “It has chosen me and I have chosen it back.”

The fact that there are no neatly drawn lines is a sign of health and not of disorder.

the modern philosophy that everything-one-wants-one-may-have,

One of the great qualities of the Jewish tradition is its ability to balance contradictions—idealism and realism, Jewish particularism and unusual concern for humanity.

The key element in the whole process is the nature of halacha.