Israel II: Beyond the Basics (Israel Basics Book 2)
it argues that there is one God and many faiths—and only one world in which to live together in peace. That means that for Judaism the great spiritual challenge is not so much finding God within oneself as finding God within the other, the stranger.
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we’d ever get past the first chapter. The claims that Genesis 1 makes about who and what we are as human beings are so potent, so stirring, so breathtaking, and ultimately so demanding that we can’t just read it and move on. The chapter demands nothing less than a radical reorientation of our lives
... See moreShai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Rather than a system of distilled ideas or a code of behavioral ideals, Jewish observance is living Jews living Judaism and interested non-Jews enriching their own path with nuggets of Torah.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
The message of the Hebrew Bible is that serving God and serving our fellow human beings are inseparably linked, and the split between the two impoverishes both. Unless the holy leads us outward toward the good, and the good leads us back, for renewal, to the holy, the creative energies of faith run dry.