Sublime

“What business do we have with ideology-shmideology? The Jewish nation is being destroyed!”

Both his religious beliefs and his family memories are true for him not because of historical research but regardless of it.

liberal Judaism to seek

In the nineteenth century, modern culture and emancipation had fundamentally changed the Jewish people. Modernity’s message was power, human power.

Many religious people think that concessions to human limitations are incompatible with divine law. An eternal truth should not be qualified by socioeconomic realities or cultural norms. Halacha’s pragmatism bespeaks a different understanding of Judaism.

just as we engage in interpretation of Torah, so too can we hold the siddur in the same light.

The Torah of Israel is truly a collective work: not only does it engage the entire people across generations, but it also articulates the divine potentiality that invites continuing interpretation, exploration, and new tellings of its tales and new applications of its laws.

that science and religion need not remain locked in a winner-take-all battle,

At the heart of Jewish doing is the conviction that there is a unifying Oneness that undergirds everything and makes openness possible.