Sublime

recognize God as dynamic and vulnerable, as using persuasive power to enlist us to make optimal choices for our own (and creation’s) betterment.

Hesed can be translated and defined in a variety of ways, and its precise definition is a subject of scholarly debate.

In protesting, the psalmists reach out to a God who loves them.

Gratitude becomes a way of being in the world.

God creates us with love, for love.

Ahavat yisrael is not—cannot be—the religious equivalent of “our country, right or wrong.”

Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe (d. 2005)

Already blessed with the world itself, we are blessed further with a path for making our way through it—and, tradition teaches, with a God who accompanies us along the way.

Maimonides lays out: learn the truth from whoever says it.37