Sublime

‘Sanctifying the name’ is no mere marginal addendum to the script of Jewish life but its very point: to bring God’s presence into the world by making others aware that God’s word sanctifies life.

Judaism emphasizes our obligations to those on the margins.

There is simply no coordinated effort to educate the Jewish people in a way that empowers them.

Torah. “This person,” he said, pointing to the drunken chassid, “has just displayed tremendous mesirus nefesh (self-sacrifice). He sacrificed his Yom Kippur experience to save a Jewish family. But he did not give up Yom Kippur; he sprang over it. His self-sacrifice enabled him to bypass all the intermediate levels and reach the level of Simchas Tor

Judaism never left its ideals at the level of lofty aspirations, but instead translated them into deeds that we call mitzvot, and a way, which we call the halakhah, and thus

Freeing the people from the mass of contemporary experiences, Shabbat restores the root and the goal—the Exodus and the messianic vision—to the center of life. Through