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Moses Maimonides, once declared, “Listen to the truth from whoever said it.”
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
to be a Jew is to cry out, even when silence would be safer, easier, and more convenient.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Could it be that today’s society has made Jewish identity superfluous?
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
He wants us to engage with the world. He wants us to heal the sick, feed the hungry, fight injustice with all the power of law, and combat ignorance with universal education. He wants us to show what it is to love the neighbour and the stranger, and say, with R. Akiva, “Beloved is humanity because we are each created in God’s image” (Mishna Avot 3:
... See moreJonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
not just about what we do but also about the kind of person we are called on to become. The Torah is more than law. It is narrative as well.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Implicit in the Torah is the radical idea that the free God seeks the free worship of free human beings.
Jonathan Sacks • Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 7)
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel • Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
Israel is home in the classic definition of the poet Robert Frost: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
David J. Wolpe • Why Be Jewish?
There is a temptation to lapse into habit, into weekday thoughts and patterns of interest. This