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This is something I love about Judaism: When Temples fall, we don’t just stand around trying to make sacrifices at the ruins. We retranslate our tradition to create something more enduring.
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
Sanctity of time
Sanctity of man
Sanctity of space
Rabbi Heschel
As Naftali Loewenthal surmised, the selective employment of Lurianic concepts by Shneur Zalman was an attempt “to make the teachings of the Maggid and the Baal Shem Tov rationally meaningful to a Hasidic following which was composed of scholarly men who, in the main, made no claim to pneumatic attainment.”
Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson
when all was said and done, the Rabbis’ work represented a profound discovery: The covenant was being renewed. The original covenant remained, but humans became more active and responsible. The Destruction was a call from God for a fundamental shift in the paradigm of the human role in the covenant. The Rabbis’ faithfulness showed itself in followi
... See moreIrving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Bias: To believe in G-d’s ultimate goodness, to know that blessings await us beneath the surface of our experience, no matter how bleak, to actively seek those blessings out, and to spread their light to the world beyond.
Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson • Positivity Bias
Living in the moment, in a particular mitzvah performed with complete focus, opens access to the flow of the deepest pools of Torah.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Imitatio Dei: The rabbi of Sasov once gave the last money he had in his pocket to a man of ill repute. His disciples threw it up to him. He answered them: “Shall I be more finicky than God, who gave it to me?”
Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim
Abraham ibn Daud.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Torah study opens us up to the possibility of meaningful mystery in the world.