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David J. Wolpe • Why Be Jewish?
David Wolpe • The God Who Dwells in Doubt | SAPIR Journal
Judaism speaks about Yirat Hashem, the awe one should feel before God.
David J. Wolpe • Why Be Jewish?
The mystery is to find a way to live in a frantic and fast-paced world that does not do violence to our conscience, that does not stunt our souls.
David J. Wolpe • Why Be Jewish?
As Rabbi Elliot Dorff observed of the Rabbis’ approach to understanding God, “Their way of thinking typically prefers truth to consistency, describing experience in all its fullness even if the facts do not fit neatly together.”
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
as Rabbi Jay Michaelson puts it, that “what appears to the mind as Being, appears to the heart as God.”
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
Judaism does not look on human beings as essentially sinful.
David J. Wolpe • Why Be Jewish?
In the aggadic realm, differing views can be legitimate; but in the halakhic realm, communal cohesion requires a single, normative view. God delights in both of these scenarios, and fittingly it is Elijah who tells how God acts and feels about each of them.