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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We worship God through our questions.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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