Sublime

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

So every year, in the most important celebration of the Jewish calendar, millions of Jews put on a show that they remember things that they didn’t witness and that probably never happened at all. As numerous modern studies indicate, repeatedly retelling a fake memory eventually causes the person to adopt it as a genuine recollection.[12] When two J

The beneficiary is entitled to tzedaka according to his or her need; the donor is only obligated to give what he or she can afford.”

When communities exceed a certain size and inter-personal relationships within the community become overly thin, the urge to seek grounds for splitting becomes irresistible.

No: if anything, the liberal democracies of the West are abandoning the very values that were once known as the Judeo-Christian tradition. The family, the community, the sanctity of human life, the concept of an objective set of moral values, the idea of a covenant linking the present to the past—these are ideals in danger, not reigning orthodoxies

Jacob did what he did as an expression of love. His feeling for Rachel was overwhelming, as it was for Joseph, her elder son. Love is central to Judaism: not just love between husband and wife, parent and child, but also love for God, for neighbour and stranger. But love is not enough. There must also be justice and the impartial application of the

we can live according to our own distinct moral rules and nevertheless be fair with others; particularist traditions can be reconciled with fairness to outsiders.

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