Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism 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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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