Sublime
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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
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.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
“A good neighbor [is paramount]!”
Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson • Positivity Bias
Devarim 15:8. Kesubos 67b infers from the Hebrew phrase employed that the mitzvah of giving charity involves giving a person not merely enough to satisfy his basic necessities, but also enough to enable him to maintain
Sichos In English • Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Volume 12: Choshen Mishpat
With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Rabbi Louis Rieser.
Amy Scheinerman • The Talmud of Relationships, Volume 1: God, Self, and Family
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
in the twenty-first century—a Judaism that has been undersold and watered down. It is a Judaism where those who know its beauty are often unable or unwilling to connect to the larger Jewish community, and those on the front lines of the welcome wagon to Judaism have little skill or facility with Jewish texts to elucidate their beauty to others.