Sublime

Judaism gives voice both to the urge (and obligation) to love one’s people and to the impulse (and obligation) to love all of humanity.111 It refuses to choose one pole and deny the other; it includes and even celebrates both.

Brenner, complex though he was, was perhaps the cultural icon of the Second Aliyah. His work, still considered brilliant, surfaced issues with which Israel continues to wrestle. He would have undoubtedly done even more than he managed in his brief life, but he was murdered by an Arab mob in the 1921 Jaffa riots.

There is simply no coordinated effort to educate the Jewish people in a way that empowers them.

GIVEN THE CENTRALITY OF the sacrificial cult and priestly leadership to Israelite religion, the destruction of the Temple, and with it the sacrificial rite and the power of the priests, might well have meant the end of Israelite life. With sociological and religious genius, however, the Israelites’ leaders begged their followers…

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What is your part?

Bias: To believe in G-d’s ultimate goodness, to know that blessings await us beneath the surface of our experience, no matter how bleak, to actively seek those blessings out, and to spread their light to the world beyond.

the foundational Jewish act: recognizing the one divine source of all of creation.

People want deep meaning and connection, but they move through life thinking of Judaism’s contribution to the world as Seinfeld and guilt.