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Suffering is meaningless unless you decide otherwise.

Aware as we may be of the importance of visiting and assisting people who are ill, we still have to overcome our fears and hesitations in order to perform this mitzvah.

The importance of this act is emphasized in daily prayers.

A rabbi offers advice about how to perform the mitzvah of visiting the sick with wisdom, discretion, and sensitivity.

A Talmudic legal parable illustrates that, although they may have improved the natural world, humans do not own it. We may transcend nature, but we are also part of it.

To the Israelite prophets, humans are central to the relationship of God and the created world...

From chants to niggunim.

The social and intellectual changes brought about by the advent of the printing press.

Attitudes toward and contributions to medieval science.

Powerful passages in the Book of Job teach that the world, and the animals in particular, must not be abused or exploited by human beings.