Sublime

how can the American Jewish community foster more Empowered Jews?

Despite this the Talmud understands the Torah to be commanding us to remonstrate even with our teacher or leader, should we see him doing something wrong.

To live a spiritual life is to seek to grow in love and kindness—and to persevere even when love as a perfect integration of emotion and action seems daunting or out of reach.

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.

The faculty understand their role as not only to empower students with skills but also to open them up to the major struggles and questions of a religious life.

Leadership, as every leader knows, can be lonely. Yet you continue to do what you have to do because you know that the majority is not always right and conventional wisdom is not always wise. Dead fish go with the flow. Live fish swim against the current. So it is with conscience and courage. So it is with the children of Abraham. They are prepared

“From being solicitous about the honor of other people all the interpersonal commandments flow.”

Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.