Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.