Take the Initiative
Don’t wait for the world to get better. Take the initiative yourself. The world is waiting for…
Don’t wait for the world to get better. Take the initiative yourself. The world is waiting for…
Judaism is a religion of freedom and responsibility. Against all the many determinisms in the history of thought – astrological, philosophical, Spinozist, Marxist, Freudian, neo-Darwinian – Judaism insists that we are masters of our fate. We are neither programmed nor predestined. We can choose. That is the fourteenth principle of Jewish…
In the Torah, sin is something more than a transaction in the soul, or even an act of wrongdoing narrowly conceived. It is an act in the wrong place. It disturbs the moral order of the world. The words for sin – chet and avera – both have this significance. Chet comes from the same verb as “to miss a…
A leader must have the courage to lead, the patience to consult, and the wisdom to know when the time is right for…