Occupation: Rabbi Birth: January 11, 1907 Death: December 23, 1972
Man is a messenger who forgot the message..
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing..
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God..
Few are guilty, but all are responsible..
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions..
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as n….
Every little deed counts..
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by..
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment..
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith..
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity..
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based o….
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments..
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying..
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in di….
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. T….
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on a….
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be..
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken hear….
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy..
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everyt….