Wise Fridays: Born as an Object

“Man is born as an object, dies like an object, but possesses the ability to live like a subject, like a creator, an innovator, who can impress his own individual seal upon his life and can extricate himself from a mechanical type of existence and enter into a creative, active mode of being.”

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik

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Wise Fridays: Images of God

The images of God as lover, friend, companion, and co-creator are more appropriate metaphors for the God of the covenant ...

Wise Fridays: The Perpetual Mercy Machine

Had the Lord been a God of stern, mechanical justice, then long ago he might have repudiated his covenant and ...

Wise Fridays: Professional Development

Rabbi Judah says: Whoever does not teach his son a trade or profession teaches him to be a thief. –Babylonian ...