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A HOLISTIC ATTITUDE. A great way to mis-see people is to see only a piece of them. Some doctors mis-see their patients when they see only their bodies. Some employers mis-see workers when they see only their productivity. We must resist every urge to simplify in this way. The art historian John Richardson, Pablo Picasso’s biographer, was once asked
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The Torah is an extended wrestling with the question of human association.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
a programme for peace in an unredeemed world.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Darkhei shalom is essentially hessed universalized and applied to those who are not members of our faith.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
the power of Judaism is clear to those truly engaged in its complex struggles and searchings for truth and divinity. Instead of focusing on new ideas, the Jewish community would be better served by connecting to the original “big ideas” of our heritage: Torah, avodah, and gemilut hasadim,
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
God’s larger dream: a world in which human dignity is real, and the presence of God is manifest.