Sublime

Tiferet shows us the beauty and brokenness of the world and says, Open to all of it, this is where you live.

this act of enclothing (hitlabbeshut), epitomized in the zoharic sentiment that God and Torah are one, is the kabbalistic way of articulating the theopoetic mystery of incarnation, the paradox of the delimitation of the limitless, the ideational underpinning of the hal-akhic basis for the mystical ideal of devequt, communion with and conjunction to

As Rabbi Elliot Dorff observed of the Rabbis’ approach to understanding God, “Their way of thinking typically prefers truth to consistency, describing experience in all its fullness even if the facts do not fit neatly together.”

recognize God as dynamic and vulnerable, as using persuasive power to enlist us to make optimal choices for our own (and creation’s) betterment.

The courage that is shaped by practice The guidance that is revealed through faith The clarity that comes from surrender The insight that rises with action.

To love someone is to be together (“one flesh”) in our separateness (“cleaving”).

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