Occupation: Rabbi Birth: January 11, 1907 Death: December 23, 1972
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake..
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the da….
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds..
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs utter….
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God.
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage aga….
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in ….
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flow….
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world.
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being..
(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others..
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, a….
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil i….
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for s….
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers..
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the….
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live..
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any cr….
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life with….
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!.
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way..