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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
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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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
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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Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
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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Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship

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