You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin At the v...

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is b...

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, ti...

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. - Alfred Lord Tennyson In the middle of this week’s Torah portion we’re told: “And God spoke to...

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. -R. Turnbull The Torah reading of Tzav cont...

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold...

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson The main architect, the main builder of the Tabernacle was a young ...

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. -John Bunyan For the construction of the Tabe...

Opening Letter Dear Reader, The document in your hands is much more than a party platform. It is a Jewish vision and a message of national liberty of histori...

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -Ivy Baker At the beginning of this week’s Torah reading, God co...

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. -W. H. Auden In describing the construction plans of the Holy Tabernacl...

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. -Empedocles After the Revelation at Mount Sinai, the instruction and communication betw...

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -Sir Winston Churchill The people of Israel had been freed from the slavery of ...

Joys divided are increased. - Josiah Gilbert Holland The Egyptian Empire has been pummeled by the devastating ten plagues. In a panic, after the Death of the...

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, w...

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit ...

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. -Vince Lombardi It is probably one of the more mistranslated phrases in th...

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that...

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. -Frances Moore Lappe The end of this week...

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods As a young lad, Joseph dreamed of eleven sheaves ...