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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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