Sublime

The beneficiary is entitled to tzedaka according to his or her need; the donor is only obligated to give what he or she can afford.”

Asked about the highest level a person can achieve in this lifetime, Rabbi Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (Hazon Ish, 1878–1953) is purported to have responded: “To live seventy years without hurting another person.”

the interpretive process they developed, the Rabbis rescued Judaism in one of its darkest moments and ensured its continuation for the next two millennia. Thanks to the Rabbis, Rosen notes, “Jews became the people of the book and not the people of the Temple or the land,” all now bound together by the same foundational interpretive text and process

As Rabbi Emanuel Rackman stated (and note that he was an Orthodox rabbi), “A Jew dare not live with absolute certainty, not only because certainty is the hallmark of the fanatic and Judaism abhors fanaticism, but also because doubt is good for the human soul.”

The strength to yield The willingness to hold our judgments lightly

Cultivating the capacity to be patient with ourselves and others, knowing that we are all doing the best we can in each moment

Feeling our power and strength and making the decision to infuse our actions with kindness and generosity

Hadar was originally founded on the radical notion that a service that is egalitarian could run as fast as a nonegalitarian service.

Yeshus means obsession with self.