Sublime

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

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

The Torah is an extended wrestling with the question of human association.

for Jewish ethics, the path to universal love is through partiality rather than around it.

a programme for peace in an unredeemed world.

Darkhei shalom is essentially hessed universalized and applied to those who are not members of our faith.