Sublime

the quest to disseminate mystical knowledge within an intellectualist framework, thereby forging a synthesis of the ecstatic and the scientific, the mystical and the philosophical.

After the end of the War of Independence, Shtrikman changed his family name to Sharon and started to work on his PhD dissertation at the faculty of agriculture in Rehovot. Thereafter, he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, was promoted to the rank of professor, and gained a worldwide reputation based on his research on lectins and carbohydrat

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.

Judaism without generosity is a hollow shell.

Serving God with hitlahavut is the beginning of Hasidism. Hasidism without hitlahavut is impossible, because Hasidism proceeds in the path of the prophets, and to receive such an influence from above, our soul must be revealed.

You should always make every effort to search out whatever merit and goodness you can find within the Jewish people. Judge everyone in the scale of merit, even those who oppose you and treat you disrespectfully. If you do this you will never be troubled by opposition and arguments. When you seek out the merit of your fellow Jew, you make a precious

Anti-Semitism was protean, constantly mutating into new forms and providing an object for new fears. It could not be defeated by rational argument because it had no rational basis.