Sublime

“There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty. The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the Prophets sought to convey: that

pilgrimage to the Sabbath.

In Man’s Quest for God, Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that a melody is even more powerful than words.

Time and space are interrelated.

To live the life of faith is to hear the silent cry of the afflicted, the lonely and marginal, the poor, the sick and the disempowered, and to respond. For the world is not yet mended, there is work still to do, and God has empowered us to do it – with him, for him and for his faith in us.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s observation that “Judaism is based upon a minimum of revelation and a maximum of interpretation.”

The Jews, therefore, stand right at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”7