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Quotable: The Blogs
On God & Social Justice: “When we talk about God lifting the fallen or feeding the hungry…it is we who do [these acts]. God acts through us.” On Consumerism: “We may put our stuff in cloth bags, but are we buying less stuff? We may be building greener homes, but are we building fewer and smaller homes? We may be using more fuel-efficient cars, but are we driving less?....The [label] Ponzi scheme….seems applicable to the entire consumerist system—we keep distributing dividends to ourselves by taking more from the next wave of investors, who in this case happen to be our children; when the oil/water/open space run out, we won’t be around to suffer the consequences.” On the Torah portion Chayei Sarah in Genesis: “The Life of Sarah” / Is the name of this portion / Which starts with her death. / Could that be because / Our lives are reflected in / Those we leave behind? On Transformation: “Do you remember paint-by-numbers…? The task was to apply the right number paint to its spot on the canvas, and take care to keep within the lines….But Judaism is an art….We learn to paint from paradox rather than from certainty, to reveal the beauty, the meaningful, the good and holy that emerge from our challenges….” |
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