Sublime

Law has the highest dignity in Judaism, because it is the most basic institution of a free society.

Judaism is the ambitious attempt to build a society out of covenantal relationships, associations of free individuals, each respecting the integrity of the other, bound only by words, moral commitments, given, received and honored in trust.

arguments for the superiority of some over others fail both because we are descended from the same father (Adam) and because we were created by the same Father (God).

A society must ensure equal dignity – the Hebrew phrase is kavod habriyot, ‘human honour’ – to each of its members.

Natan Sharansky, a world-renowned human rights activist

Caring-about is empty if it does not culminate in caring relations.”

Every breath, R. Hanina reminds us, is both a summons and an opportunity to be grateful.

We must choose between hiding away in empty truths or accepting the radical uncertainty of our knowledge—remaining, like the Earth, suspended in a void.

The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”