Occupation: Rabbi Birth: 1935
I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while t….
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense..
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it..
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. T….
A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that p….
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities ….
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help..
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the tim….
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you..
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exa….
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality..
We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves..
If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a b….
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for me….