Sublime

Living according to the Torah means, in this view, aligning yourself with the forces that make for human flourishing, especially if you are a tiny people surrounded by enemies.

resilience.

Simple human activities—having a child, getting married, doing acts of kindness in a community—are sustained only by enormous levels of faith and life affirmation, and trust in ultimate meaning.

Life is about learning to listen, reaching for hope, aiming high, and then daring to act.

A free society depends on trust. Trust depends on keeping your word.

Life is God’s call to responsibility.

But while God “neither causes nor prevents tragedies,” Kushner asserts, God does inspire human beings to respond—to

If a subtext of this book is that experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you, then one of the subsequent lessons is that to know someone who has grieved, you have to know how they have processed their loss—did they emerge wiser, kinder, and stronger, or broken, stuck, and scared? To be a good friend and a good

eternity is found in the simple lives of ordinary human beings.