Sublime

Find a little private quiet time each day to bow your head in recognition of all those who knowingly or unwittingly contributed to what you are and to what you have today. By performing this little exercise regularly,

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

There is simply no coordinated effort to educate the Jewish people in a way that empowers them.

I know how many times you have sacrificed your present pleasures for the long-term good of your company,

there is one group of people that is truly useful to everyone else—those people eager to earn more money.

daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.

Judaism is powerfully focused upon goodness because to be good takes work. A simple exhortation to be good is not enough; both our history and the world as we find it today remind us that human beings have enormous appetites for cruelty and destructiveness.

Judaism’s greatness is that it gives space to both prophet and priest, to inspirational figures on the one hand, and on the other, daily routines – the halakha – that take exalted visions and turn them into patterns of behaviour that reconfigure the brain and change how we feel and who we are.