Sublime

Your obligation is to fashion lives and communities that reflect these commandments through the core values they seek to establish—human dignity, justice, compassion, holiness.

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

If we Jews seek closeness to God in covenant, small surprise that we count the ways of living the love in the hundreds of mitzvot that make our lives holy and link our way to those of our ancestors and the wisdom of our tradition. “God so loved Israel that God surrounded them with mitzvot: tefillin on their arms and heads, tzitzit on their garments

Judaism encompasses the communal act of transforming Torah, the Five Books of Moses, from literature into lives well-lived.

the fruit of faith is moral rigor, persistent love, and abiding justice:

the future of Jewish life is dependent on Jews—not just rabbis—taking hold of the rich, challenging, surprising, and inspiring heritage that makes up our texts and traditions.

No geographic location can be central for the simple reason that home base is always, everywhere, Torah.

distilled ideas, but a spiritual-ethical discipline that retains the capacity to elevate consciousness, heighten compassion, and inspire righteousness.

Creation is no longer a one-time event. It, too, is a continuing process, of which we are a part.