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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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