Sublime

My larger point about time is this: honor a schedule, and the rare moments that run over will be for good reason.

“From being solicitous about the honor of other people all the interpersonal commandments flow.”

There are countless examples of rabbinic activism in which the Sages of Israel harness the tools of legal analysis and interpretation in the service of the ethical values that infuse the Torah to this day.

Identifying yourself as a Zionist doesn’t mean that you’ll be supporting each and every action of the Israeli government with eyes wide shut. In true rabbinical tradition and those liberal values it was founded upon, Zionism in and of itself has been debated from day one and will continue to be debated while aiming to perfect its society. As such,

Who is a Jew? A person in travail with God’s dreams and designs; a person to whom God is a challenge, not an abstraction. He is called upon to know of God’s stake in history; to be involved in the sanctification of time and in building of the Holy Land; to cultivate passion for justice and the ability to experience the arrival of Friday evening as

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

There are thus two questions we ought to ask about our lives: First, what can I give? And second, what can I give?

when people are focused on the purpose behind a minyan, rather than the continuation of the minyan as an institution, then that minyan has a better chance of furthering its underlying goals.

“Can a man be a Tzaddik Ha-Dor but live hidden from himself and