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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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
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