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But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?That is not faith. That is hate. He sighed. And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows....

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord's creation, Adam.

God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.

In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord.

How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?

Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we...

There are different forms of seduction, and the kind I have witnessed in Persian dancers is so unique, such a mixture of subtlety and brazenness, I cannot find a Western equivalent to compare it to. I...

Then Adam boldly said, 'Lord, what if I am willing to bestow on that soul some of the years of my life?' And God answered Adam, saying, 'If that is your wish, that I will grant.' Adam, we are told,...

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

A eulogy is no more than a summation of memories, and we will never forget you, because we cannot forget you, because we will miss you every day. To imagine a world without you in it is to imagine a...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.

simplicity and surrender to the universe.

Some of our greatest problems in ministering to people is that they knew us back before we came to the Lord

The Reb once did a sermon on how the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal...

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?

Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied -- before working some more.

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness?I believe so, he saidAre you going to tell me?Yes.Ready?Ready.Be satisfied.That's it?Be greatful.That's it?For what you have.For the love you receive.And for...

All right. In that final minute, I would say, 'Look, Lord, I've done X amount of good stuff on earth. I have tried to follow your teachings and to pass them on. I have loved my family. I've been part...

How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you?

Faith isn't about doing. You are how you act not just how you believe.

But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and...

Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous

Back in the sanctuary, the Reb concluded his taped message by saying, Please love one another, talk to one another, don't let trivialities dissolve friendships… Then he sang a simple tune, which...

He had recorded a message to be played upon his death. He had told no one-except Teela, his shopping companion and health care worker, who delivered the tape to his family. It was brief. But in it,...

In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song-one same, wonderful, human song. I am in...

Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For what the love you received. And for what God has given you