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Arthur Green, Ehyeh: A Kabbalah For Tomorrow
Share the witness of God's Oneness with all who want to receive it. Witness by public prayer, by teaching, but mostly by doing it. Be willing to share in mutual witness with those of other faith paths. Open your heart to be inspired by them, without losing confidence in the path that is your own.
Share the witness of God's Oneness
Steven McFadden, Teach Us to Number Our Days
True elders are people who have gracefully accepted the passage of time, integrated their life experience with deep understanding, and made the fruit of their long experience available to others.
True elders are people who have gracefully accepted
Rachel Carson, Full Esteem Ahead
If a child is to keep alive an inborn sense of wonder, he needs the company of at least one adult who can share it, and rediscover the joy and mystery of the world we live in.
If a child is to keep alive a sense of wonder
Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Nancy H. Wiener, Judaism for Two
Whether planned or spontaneous, playing can help you maintain an intimate relationship. And it can be a central part of your shared physical intimacy as well.
Play can help maintain an intimate relationship
Mencius , Frederic Brussat's Twitter Collection
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Friendship is one mind
Edward Hays, Chasing Joy
Consider another irritation: that of the noisy behavior of others such as young teenagers racing their motorbikes up and down your street or celebrating together in front of your house late at night. These and similar actions are logical robbers of your peace and joy that would normally result in anger. Experiment with reverse evolution. Desire to be as young as those noisy teenagers are by shrinking the age difference between you and them in order to share in their uninhibited adolescent joy.
Experiment with reverse evolution
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, A Heart Full of Peace
Try to be at peace with yourself
and help others to share that peace.
Try to be at peace with yourself
The Chosen
1941. Brooklyn, New York. Reuven Malter (Barry Miler) and Danny Saunders (Robby Benson) are on opposite teams in a baseball game. As the competition heats up, Danny hits the ball directly at Reuven, the pitcher; his glasses shatter and one of his eyes is cut. At the hospital, Danny tries to apologize, but Reuven — convinced that he'll never see out of the eye again — refuses the gesture. Later, the two boys establish a friendship that bridges the differences in their upbringings.
Reuven's father is a professor who teaches and writes about contemporary Jewish affairs. Danny's dad is the charismatic head of a group of Hassidic Jews who study the Talmud and structure their lives around ancient European customs. Although Reb Saunders expects his son to succeed him, Danny's interest in psychology leads him into a much wider world. Reuven plays a large role in introducing his friend to the secular culture of art, film, and music.
The Chosen is based on Chaim Potok's best-selling 1967 novel and has been brought to the screen by producers Edie and Ely Landau. Director Jeremy Paul Kagan draws out strong performances from the four lead characters: Robby Benson as Danny, Rod Steiger as his father, Barry Miller as Reuven, and Maximilian Schell as Mr. Malter. The drama is filled with colorful details of Hassidic rituals and lifestyle. In one scene, Reuven is present for a wedding that culminates with a soulful dance. And throughout, he learns about the Hassidic spiritual tradition of the silence of a righteous man.
A rift develops between the two friends during college when Mr. Malter begins crusading for a Jewish homeland. Reb Saunders rejects Zionist politics as blasphemy — a refusal to take seriously the coming of the Messiah. Danny is not allowed to speak to Reuven for months until the state of Israel becomes a fact.
At one point, Reb Saunders tells Reuven: "It is not easy to be a friend." The film probes sharing, empathy, and patience — personal qualities that are at the heart of all true friendship. The Chosen is an ideal family film and ought to be very appealing to religious groups.
Probes sharing, empathy, and patience as personal qualities at the heart of friendship.
Lewis Richmond, Work as a Spiritual Practice
Generosity is the classic expression of the accomplished spirit, when the self is open and unguarded and can freely share with others.
Generosity is the classic expression
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
Jewish Law is a sacred prosody, for the divine sings in our deeds, the divine is disclosed in our deeds. Our effort is but the counterpoint to the music of His will. Judaism is living shared with God.
The divine sings in our deeds