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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.

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

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

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....

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?

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

But today is not yesterday, and the Reb could do nothing but listen to the worst imaginable words-We couldn't save her-told to him by a doctor he had never met before that night. How could this...

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love,...

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.

Because one thing God gave us- and I'm afraid it's at times a little too much- is freewill. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.

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.

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner.Mom,guess what ? she squealed waving the drawing .her mother...

Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous