Sublime

From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,

to be a Jew is to cry out, even when silence would be safer, easier, and more convenient.

Judaism without generosity is a hollow shell.

for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.

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.