Sublime

the faith of a man who has considered the very real possibility that chaos and bloodshed are simply all there is.

it is a mitzvah for family love to flow outward.

Darkhei shalom is essentially hessed universalized and applied to those who are not members of our faith.

doesn’t water down the tradition to be inclusive.

“To speak as a Jew is to quote … [and] to quote is to see the present through the prism of tradition.”

we had no compulsion to try to be what we’re not. The freedom to say about a program, “That worked one year, it doesn’t work now,” is incredibly liberating.

There is great strength to be found in opening to whatever is coming forth.

Remembering Jeremiah, the sages formulated a third way: to sustain their faith through institutions that (unlike the Temple) could be established anywhere – the synagogue, the school, the house of study and the home. In the meanwhile they would practise what today would be called active citizenship in the countries of their dispersion.

and guides us in valuing what is difficult, what is different