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Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: A Monumental Risk
God as we encounter him in the Bible takes a risk monumental in its implications. He creates one being, humanity, ...
Wise Fridays: Our Happiness
Our happiness depends upon enjoyment and enjoyment depends upon the swift sentiment with which each beauty surprises our senses. Unhappy ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: God’s Speech
What is taken as God’s speech is really always man’s hearing…that God is not the strategist of our particularities or ...
Israel, Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: The Value of Independence
Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence. —David Ben Gurion Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on ...
Wise Fridays: Rewarding Activities
“The following are the activities for which a person is rewarded in this world, and again in the World-to-Come: honoring ...
Wise Fridays: Deception in Business
“It is forbidden to defraud or deceive any person in business. Jew and non-Jew are to be treated alike. If ...
Wise Fridays: Words and Not Money
“Rabbi Isaac said: Anyone who gives a coin to a poor man is blessed with six blessings, but one who ...
Wise Fridays: Caring for the Poor
“When Rabbi Joshua ben Levi went to Rome, he saw marble pillars covered with sheets, so they wouldn’t crack from ...
Beliefs & Practices, Jewish History, Live, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Wise Fridays: Respecting the Aged
“Show respect to an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have ...
Beliefs & Practices, Live, Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Fear of God
Fear only two: God, and him who fears not God. –Yiddish preacher Judah Leib Lazerov Find more Wise Fridays wisdom ...