Sublime

we live in a world that is fundamentally ambiguous, and that we can have no absolute certainty about how the world ultimately is.

Halakhah as a system is how the Torah continues to integrate contemporary perspectives, converses with science, and heeds the voice of conscience.

Living in the moment, in a particular mitzvah performed with complete focus, opens access to the flow of the deepest pools of Torah.

the error of assuming that kabbalah and Ḥasidism are “one entity expressed in different forms.” In an effort to correct this miscalculation, he explained that the former is the study of esoteric matters by a limited group of people, the elect (yeḥidei segullah) of a given generation, whereas the latter is about publicizing these secrets to afford e

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

the very notion of a Ḥasidic rebbe must be understood as a composite figure, a corporate entity, if you will, a man whose identity is configured by his followers and perhaps also by his opponents. In

The excessive joviality is a ceremonial enactment of the philosophical principle of the coincidence of opposites, as Purim inhabits the place within the divine economy where the spiritual and material converge in the sameness of their divergence.

Chesed is resolute, strong, insistent, and fair.

Judaism is God’s perennial question-mark against the condition of the world.