Sublime

To an unusual degree Judaism is a conversation scored for many voices.

Perhaps faith is only created in the doing, happiness in the giving and meaning in the courage to take risks for the sake of an ideal.

They were redeemers of loneliness.

God is not about power but relationship; that religion is not about control but about freedom; that God is found less in nature than in human society, in the structures we make to honor His presence by honoring His image in other human beings. Biblical faith is about the dignity of the personal, and it can never be obsolete.

But we each have gifts, capacities, that can lie dormant throughout life, until someone awakens them.

What Jews have, he argues, modern economies lack: a system of self-control that allows economies to flourish without booms and crashes, inflation and recession.

But such is not the case.

how do I create a lasting relationship of mutuality and trust with an other while honouring his or her freedom and dignity?

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars I belong to it.”