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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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