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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...