Sublime

when people come to belief it is usually as a result of being led to knowledge by other people. Faith is social.

Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10

God asks one individual – eventually a family, a tribe, a collection of tribes, a nation – to serve as an exemplary role-model, to be as it were a living case-study in what it is to live closely and continuously in the presence of God. This is – as Jewish history testifies – a weighty and risk-laden responsibility. Since

Who is a Jew? A person in travail with God’s dreams and designs; a person to whom God is a challenge, not an abstraction. He is called upon to know of God’s stake in history; to be involved in the sanctification of time and in building of the Holy Land; to cultivate passion for justice and the ability to experience the arrival of Friday evening as

One of the key questions the Torah addresses is: how do we create associations that honour both self and other, ‘I’ and ‘Thou’?

His library was surprisingly wide-ranging, flowing from his belief that a teacher of the Bible should never stop learning. For all his fire and persistent stubborn streak, he had spent a lifetime building a team of genuine partners rather than yes-men.

La philosophie de Vanier est basée sur la rencontre, la relation, l’amitié authentique et l’amour. Il dit qu’une bonne société est une société dans laquelle on permet aux gens de se rencontrer, non pas pour se donner des ordres ni pour se prouver quoi que ce soit, mais pour réfléchir sur notre humanité commune, pour se lier d’amitié, pour célébrer

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to l