Sublime

Judaism without generosity is a hollow shell.

Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.

Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10

I wrestle with and write about theology because I care about it to the depths of my being, because questions about who and what God is, and about what it means to be a Jew and a human being in the twenty-first century matter to me like almost nothing else does.

we have the privilege/responsibility to ask not just how we can serve as human beings in general, but also how we can serve as human beings in particular.

ethics is about responding not to human beings in general but to human beings in particular—and in all their particularity.

for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.

daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.

Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.