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They want to learn Hebrew, but there are not enough high-quality Hebrew classes. They are interested in basic Jewish knowledge but are unable to connect to synagogues. The Jewish community does not have the teachers and the leaders who can step forward to meet this need.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Imitatio Dei: The rabbi of Sasov once gave the last money he had in his pocket to a man of ill repute. His disciples threw it up to him. He answered them: “Shall I be more finicky than God, who gave it to me?”
Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim
it is a mitzvah for family love to flow outward.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
What is striking about Judaism is not just its emphasis on responsibility but its insistence on elaborate support structures.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Mediated by the models of their culture, the Torah’s prohibitions become inscrutable decrees. Human dignity and human partnership are far more central in the rabbinic tradition.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Imagine a society and culture that promotes excellence of character as the key to happiness. Judaism always has.
Erica Brown • Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe
I do not know a God who wants or cares about ritual forms and mumbled words any more than one who wants a great parade of dead animals served up upon the altar.
Arthur Green • Well of Living Insight: Comments on the Siddur
For the rabbi in distress—and for his oppressed and colonized people—Elijah breaks the rules of the game, in which the Romans governing Palestine (or the Persians governing Babylonia) always win and the Jews always lose. Elijah in disguise opens unpredictable possibilities.
Daniel C. Matt • Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
He wants us to engage with the world. He wants us to heal the sick, feed the hungry, fight injustice with all the power of law, and combat ignorance with universal education. He wants us to show what it is to love the neighbour and the stranger, and say, with R. Akiva, “Beloved is humanity because we are each created in God’s image” (Mishna Avot
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