Sublime

Behind the ethic of responsibility is the daring idea that more than we have faith in God, God has faith in us.

that God is waiting for us to act.

great leadership works through the emotions.”1

There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.

Sue Burns lifted herself by lifting others.

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

God is not about power but relationship; that religion is not about control but about freedom; that God is found less in nature than in human society, in the structures we make to honor His presence by honoring His image in other human beings. Biblical faith is about the dignity of the personal, and it can never be obsolete.

Faith is the call to human responsibility.

Judaism’s greatness is that it gives space to both prophet and priest, to inspirational figures on the one hand, and on the other, daily routines – the halakha – that take exalted visions and turn them into patterns of behaviour that reconfigure the brain and change how we feel and who we are.