Sublime

“In this day and age,” said Rabbi Moshe, “the greatest devotion, greater than learning and praying, consists in accepting the world exactly as it happens to be.”

In an age of death and destruction, Rabbi Yohanan taught that a fundamental religious response was to increase loving-kindness and multiply life itself.

In truth, public prayer allows for individual pace and expression much more than a page announcement might imply.

finally, a community that believes—but I mean really, really believes—that Torah has a contribution to make to the redemption of the world, and that ultimately the world will not be redeemed without Torah.

what would it take to build the ideal learning community—one that fostered Empowered Jews in an environment where they didn’t need to compromise a core part of their identity? Fortunately,

one must return to the world, to participate in the reintegration of the souls in their embodiment, to worship in such a manner that one creates a habitation for the divine in the terrestrial realm (asiyyat dirah lo yitbarakh ba-taḥtonim).

There is great strength to be found in opening to whatever is coming forth.

the foundational Jewish act: recognizing the one divine source of all of creation.

For Jonas, Diaspora is not a matter of geography; it is a matter of existential distance from life lived truly. In rabbinic parlance, one might say that we are no longer capable of observing God’s will completely.