Daily Kavanah – Thursday, June 4, 2020
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” Henry David Thoreau, “On Civil Disobedience,” 1849 Thoreau famously refused [...]
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” Henry David Thoreau, “On Civil Disobedience,” 1849 Thoreau famously refused [...]
“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
Responding to Racial Injustice “Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a [...]
“Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered [...]
Rabbi Menachem Mendl of Kotsk teaches that we call Shavuot zman matan Torateinu—the time of the giving of the Torah, to center the giving [...]
Vision looks inward and becomes duty, outward & becomes aspiration, upward and becomes faith. —Rabbi Stephen Wise Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav offers a similar teaching, offering [...]
Rabbi Shimon used to say: There are three crowns–the crown of the Torah, the crown of the priesthood, and the crown of kingship, [...]
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that [...]
The poet Yehuda Amichai writes: A hymn of remembrance for those who died in war. Even the remembering generation dwindles and dies, half [...]
Our Elderly When Moses descends Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments and observes the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf, he throws down the [...]