We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.