Sublime

The classic Jewish response to catastrophe is to renew life.

The Judaic vision aims at a society in which there is equal access to dignity and hope.

Judaism is not a religion for the individual seeker alone; it is a vision for how human beings ought to live together in pursuit of the right and the good.

exclusion. It is time to reclaim chesed, covenantal love, as the imperative of this age, and to assert chesed as the central Jewish religious value.

God’s larger dream: a world in which human dignity is real, and the presence of God is manifest.

Halakhah is a process through which we can wrestle each other to achieve some measure of consensus.

However, there is already a fundamental difference from the past. In the past, a threatened Jewish community in Diaspora could hope only to sustain bearable losses and to live on by sufferance or flight. Israel has—and, through it, all Jews have—a major voice in its own fate. In the past, when Jews were destroyed, their wealth and achievement enric

What Process Theology offers is the opportunity to sandblast the philosophical overlay of Hellenistic Greece and medieval Europe off the rich, burnished grain of Bible, Rabbinics, and Kabbalah so that we can savor the actual patterns in the living wood of religion, the etz hayyim,