Sublime

positive remarks were precise and accurately targeted. He told each of his disciples what their specific strength was.

The other way to achieve it is to speak to people’s needs and aspirations and teach them how to achieve these things together as a group. That is done through the power of a vision, force of personality, the ability to articulate shared ideals in a language with which people can identify, and the capacity to “raise up many disciples” who will conti

in most cases, the sages favoured peace over truth. To be sure, they were willing to die for their faith – awesomely so.9 There are truths more precious than life itself. But the rabbis articulated an ethic heavily weighted toward peace.

Surowiecki’s argument is that we need dissenting voices, people who challenge the conventional wisdom, resist the fashionable consensus, and disturb the intellectual peace. “Follow the person in front of you” is as dangerous to humans as it is to army ants.

The Jews, therefore, stand right at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”7

That requires covenantal, not just contractual, politics.

This is why, in Cass Sunstein’s words, “societies need dissent.”

does it respect the individual as image of God?