“ We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being. ”
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
