Sublime

Judaism is not a religion for the individual seeker alone; it is a vision for how human beings ought to live together in pursuit of the right and the good.

For it is better for a person to cast himself into a burning furnace rather than embarrass his colleague in public.

leader does not stand above the people. He serves the people, and he serves God. The

below, which states that although one is entitled to keep an article lost by a gentile, if returning it will motivate the gentiles to praise the faithfulness of the Jewish people, it is desirable to do so.

The prohibition on embarrassing another is one of Judaism’s cardinal sins, they say, and one should sooner die than transgress

In the first instance, the dispersion of Moses in every generation (itpashṭuta de-moshe be-khol dara we-dara) signifies the capability of every Jew to expand his or her consciousness (da‘at) to the point of being assimilated within the divine and to draw down the infinite light into the world.42 However, the righteous sages, the “eyes of the