Haskel and Deah

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life.†This must be understood in a spiritual sense. When a man clings to ...

R. Kruspedai said in the name of R. Yohanan: On Rosh Hashanah, three books are opened — one with the ...

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

When such acts [that desecrate Shabbat in order to save a life] are done, they are not to be done ...

The originality and creativity in man are rooted in his loneliness-experience, not in his social awareness…Social man is superficial: he ...

A medicine man from the Blood Indian Reservation, Brother Rufus Goodstriker…picked up the shofar and looked it over. “Ram’s hom,” ...

“The day of death is better than the day of birth,” Rabbi Levi explained. “This can be compared to two ...

To deny people’s full humanity is to remove them from divinity, and if we lessen the divine image of anyone, ...

The rabbis told this story: In a certain place there was a lizard which used to injure people. They came ...

All clarity derives from faith, and faith is initially a composite of fear and love. The soul in its inner ...