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Again, a line that seemed to be a human attempt to describe God becomes—when seen in its biblical context—an ethical charge for how humans should treat other humans.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The problem is that the rabbis he respects were almost all murdered.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
Shabbos gives release from the tyranny of technology, yes, but the deepest rewards of Shabbos go beyond direct utility and practicality. They are in the social, interpersonal, and spiritual realms – family bonding, community formation, opening the heart to grace, nobility of character, orientation in place and time, rediscovery of the self, liberat
... See moreNehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
Israel is the model of variety and diversity when it comes to prayer and Jewish community.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
every commandment of Torah except three—idolatry, murder, and certain sexual immoralities—can be overridden to save life.†
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
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.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Judaism’s ideal world is vegetarian but, for now, halacha permits eating meat,
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The table is considered an altar. Thus, we not only show appreciation before we eat, but also, as the Torah instructs us (DEUT. 8:10), after we have eaten.