We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.