Sublime

“If not you, who? If not now, when?”—Hillel the Elder

Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe (d. 2005)

The practice is to search until you find a good point that really makes a difference to you. Rabbi Chaim Kramer, the founder of the Breslov Research Institute, describes the process.

rabbis as teachers are in critical demand. And after a year running Hadar, I knew that my life’s focus was not only to build one specific community but also to spread the model of Empowered Judaism.

“A good neighbor [is paramount]!”

From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,

(1) learn, (2) understand, and (3) practice.

Rabbi Max Kadushin deemed this approach “normal mysticism”—the habit of infusing daily life with a sense of the sacred, and transforming it from a succession of unremarkable acts we mindlessly perform to a series of wonders in which we delight.

Liberal rabbis often become sacred social workers, mainly focused on pastoral and lifecycle moments in their communities.