Sublime

from a Jewish perspective, there is no self without gratitude, and that I exist in relationship even before I exist as a self.

Rabbi Greenberg explained that we lost 30 percent of the Jewish people during the war, but more than 80 percent of the scholars, mystics, and teachers who could pass on ancient traditions.

The central paradigm of Jewish religion is redemption. According to the Bible, the human being is created in the image of God. According to the Rabbis this means that every single person is unique and equal, endowed with the dignity of infinite value. But in history most humans have been degraded or denied their due. Judaism affirms that this condi

The options are these: become an academic, a rabbi, or Orthodox.

finally, a community that believes—but I mean really, really believes—that Torah has a contribution to make to the redemption of the world, and that ultimately the world will not be redeemed without Torah.

Rabbis ensured that the core truths of revelation would not be forever trapped in the specifics of ancient laws developed for an ancient people.

The main goal of a Jew is to serve God with simplicity and without any sophistication (Likutey Moharan II, 19).

not to reinvent Judaism, but to execute it a bit better than we had seen it done elsewhere.