According to Jewish spirituality, there are four converging paths to the creation of life as an art form, four roads to spiritual self-development, four paths that can lead to the divine: the world, the self, the sacred deed, and, the sacred word. The sacred word is a road and a rope with each of us at one end and God at the other end.
— Byron Sherwin, The Community of Religions by Wayne Teasdale, editor, George Cairns, editor