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Liberal rabbis often become sacred social workers, mainly focused on pastoral and lifecycle moments in their communities.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The main goal of a Jew is to serve God with simplicity and without any sophistication (Likutey Moharan II, 19).
Chaim Kramer • Crossing the Narrow Bridge
Midrash is liberating, deeply comforting, and life renewing, for by "remembering" ourselves into the Bible, as this book strives to do, we can enrich the past and invent hope for the future.
Jill Hammer PhD • Sisters At Sinai: New Tales Of Biblical Women
The radiance of a generous heart that sees clearly
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
there are two kinds of good: goodness that is openly apparent, and goodness that is disguised and requires a frame of mind like that of Nachum Ish Gamzu or Rabbi Akiva to appreciate it.
Rabbi Shloma Majeski • The Chassidic Approach To Joy
The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
In Rabbi Nachman’s words: When one begins to look at oneself and can’t find good, and sees all of one’s mistakes, and the [yetzer] wants to make one fall into deep sadness because of these . . . [one] needs to search and find some little good in oneself because it is impossible that one hasn’t done some good.6
David Jaffe • Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change
Rabbis ensured that the core truths of revelation would not be forever trapped in the specifics of ancient laws developed for an ancient people.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
The Shabbos graces are bestowed upon those who seek Shabbos out of love and hear the call of holiness, rather than those who seek reward, whether material or spiritual.