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For the past century, perhaps for much longer, a deep ambivalence has cast its shadow over Jewish life.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Judaism is God’s perennial question-mark against the condition of the world.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
it is a mitzvah for family love to flow outward.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
In an age of death and destruction, Rabbi Yohanan taught that a fundamental religious response was to increase loving-kindness and multiply life itself.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
We ask ourselves, What do I have to let go of to move forward? I will act compassionately toward all. I will remember that my strength comes from the Eternal.
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
Shabbos is about the recognition of human limits, acceptance of individual boundedness.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
They never allowed the exhilaration of the present to obscure the lessons of the past or responsibility to the future. That is why Jews were and remain an important voice in the moral conversation of mankind.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Implicit in the Torah is the radical idea that the free God seeks the free worship of free human beings.
Jonathan Sacks • Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 7)
Never miss or ignore an opportunity to make new friends and to nurture existing ones.