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Everything that has ever happened has created this very moment. Everything that will ever be unfolds from here.
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
“If not you, who? If not now, when?”—Hillel the Elder
Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson • Positivity Bias
Hessed is the gift of love that begets love.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
How wise the hasidic counsel that our first words – indeed first thoughts – must be suffused in the emotions that we want to characterize the day as a whole – love, acceptance, equanimity, gratitude, and sacred yearning.
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
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Sublime Zettels January 2025
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”
Yochi Brandes • The Orchard
“Empowered Judaism.” This is a Judaism in which people begin to take responsibility for creating Jewish community, without waiting on the sidelines.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
despite the Torah’s insistence on justice as the foundation of society, there is something prior to justice and to society itself, namely the gossamer strands of kindness that link self to self in bonds of love.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
You should always make every effort to search out whatever merit and goodness you can find within the Jewish people. Judge everyone in the scale of merit, even those who oppose you and treat you disrespectfully. If you do this you will never be troubled by opposition and arguments. When you seek out the merit of your fellow Jew, you make a precious
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