The Many Acts of Love
“What was new and remarkable in the Bible was the idea that love, not just fairness, is the driving principle of the moral life.” – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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Messy Over Messianic
What captured my imagination about Israel was not the promise of redemption but the drama of human connection and aspiration.
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Loving My People Is Worth the Effort
In the abstract, love is about as good as it gets. Yet Jewish wisdom seems to know just how hard it is to love, how inclined we are to move in the opposite direction.
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Visualizing Love
Fear and love are the two wings of a bird, and a bird cannot fly with just one wing.” – Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liady, based on the Zohar
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NiSh’ma: Ahava
Our three commentators unpack a deeply evocative line from Shir HaShirim: “Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it.” (Song of Songs 8:7) They reflect on the changing nature of love — what endures and what dies over time.
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Consider and Converse: A Guide to Ahava
A guide with suggestions, activities, and prompts for individual contemplation and informal or more structured conversations.
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