Sublime

Judaism does not stand on ceremonies … Jewish piety is an answer to God, expressed in the language of mitzvot rather than in the language of “ceremonies.”

they cared for something larger than their respective faith communities. They cared for humanity.

Jewish prayer is a resilient discipline reminding us of the bounty of being alive and that we are called to embody God’s image.

It is a day for praise, not a day for petitions.

One of the most stunning gestures of Judaism was to overturn the whole idea of a hierarchy of knowledge,18 for if there are inequalities of learning, they will be replicated through all other social structures, giving some people unwarranted power over others. This is the great insight of the Jewish vision, from which all else followed: A free soci

How, then, can individuals stay alive, intensely alive, psychically alive? The answer given by Jewish tradition is that one cannot avoid death or death-in-life. The only way to overcome death is by rebirth.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: `Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?"'=

qadosh, holy; a word which more than any other is representative of the mystery and majesty of the divine.

“Do you think that I am offering you authority [serara]? I am offering you the chance to serve [avdut]” (Horayot 10a–b). As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve.”6