Sublime

Liberal rabbis often become sacred social workers, mainly focused on pastoral and lifecycle moments in their communities.

Judaism is the ambitious attempt to build a society out of covenantal relationships, associations of free individuals, each respecting the integrity of the other, bound only by words, moral commitments, given, received and honored in trust.

how can the American Jewish community foster more Empowered Jews?

Rabbi Saadia Gaon teaches that “the Jews are a people by virtue of Torah.”

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.”

One of Judaism’s most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility, the idea that God invites us to become, in the rabbinic phrase, his ‘partners in the work of creation’. The God who created the world in love calls on us to create in love. The God who gave us the gift of freedom asks us to use it to honour and enhance the free

In an age of death and destruction, Rabbi Yohanan taught that a fundamental religious response was to increase loving-kindness and multiply life itself.

even as a leader of the minyan, college was a cynical davening time—prayer can’t really engage people, I figured, so let’s just get it done as quickly and efficiently as possible.