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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.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
A Chinese man in the congregation springs to his feet, whipping out a shofar, a ram’s horn. In a synagogue, a rabbi solemnly blows the shofar on holy occasions, producing a few mournful bleats. This Chinese man is somehow blasting out ‘Hava Nagila’ like he’s Charlie Parker.
John Safran • Depends What You Mean by Extremist
This is not a religion for individuals; it is the religion of a people. These people need me, and I need them. We cannot escape from one another.
David Kasher • ParshaNut: 54 Journeys into the World of Torah Commentary
The sages articulated a principle: “Where penitents stand even the perfectly righteous cannot stand” (Berakhot
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Money is not the coins, or the balances, or even the UTXOs, but the consensus around economic behavior and reality these “tokens” capture.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
When you judge someone favorably, the Hasidic master Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav (1772–1810) teaches, you elevate them and bring out the best that they are capable of being.