Sublime

The wholeness and integrity of shalom means not making yourself small because others would have you shrink from your own greatness. Shleimut, wholeness, means offering to the world the fullness of who you are at your best:

In the end, though, the stringency of Jewish law, above all the practice of circumcision, was a barrier against its wider adoption, and it was precisely these elements that Paul removed.

that is where the deep power of learning Jewish texts actually lies—in the possibility that something unexpected will emerge.

in an Empowered Judaism framework, Jewish education is about much more than Jewish demographic continuity. It is about fostering literacy in your own culture and heritage.

when all was said and done, the Rabbis’ work represented a profound discovery: The covenant was being renewed. The original covenant remained, but humans became more active and responsible. The Destruction was a call from God for a fundamental shift in the paradigm of the human role in the covenant. The Rabbis’ faithfulness showed itself in followi

The way of Jewish tradition was always one of cumulative upbuilding.

become Judaism’s most controversial proposition: that since mankind in its diversity cannot be reduced to a single image, so God cannot be reduced to a single faith or language. God exists in difference and thus chooses as His witness a people dedicated to difference.

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.

even for the leaders of this form of Judaism, life is not linear, and serious progress is often the result of messy journeys.