Ray of Truth

The Jew is a Text

“If Jews in exile found a homeland in the text, it was because it was not a, but the text, the Tora, the wri-tten record of the divine covenant, locating Jews in time and space… and making them a people, despite their dispersion, who shared a constitu-tion and a culture.” Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of […]

Born-But For Inspiration

“Not for the fretful cares of everyday life, Not for the pursuit of profit, not for warfare Are we born-but for inspiration, For sweet sounds and for prayers.” A. S. Pushkin’s

The Scandal

Like the Hebrew word that it translates, “scandal” means, not one of those ordinary obstacles that we avoid easily after we run into it the first time, but a paradoxical obstacle that is almost impo-ssible to avoid: the more this obstacle, or scan-dal, repels us, the more it attracts. R. Girard I See Satan

My Authoritarian Manner

“I had to deal with difficult situations, and I made my decisions abruptly and by myself. My authoritarian and quick manner of mak-ing decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultra-conservative.” Pope Francis

The Carnival

“Carnival with all its images, indecencies, and curses affirms the people’s immortal, indestructible character. In the world of carnival the awareness of the people’s immortality is combined with the realization that established authority and truth are relative.” M. Bakhtin

The Original Disgrace

“This nucleus (Ur-grund) is that of “original sin.” Because of that fall or “dis-grace,” in the emphatic and etymological sense, the human condition is tragic. It is ontologically tragic, which is to say in essence. Fallen man is made an unwelcome guest of life or, at best, a threatened stranger on this hostile or indifferent […]

The Sky

“Even before any religious values have been set upon the sky it reveals its transcendence. The sky symbolizes transcendence, power and changelessness simply by being there. It exists because it is high, infinite, immovable powerful.” Martin Buber

Departs from Familiar Limits

“The unhomely prevents us from making ourselves at home and therein it is overpowering. But man is the strangest of all, not only because he passes his life amid the strange under-stood in this sense, but because he departs from his customary, familiar limits, because he is the violent one, who, tending toward the strange […]

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