Mar 2023

The exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Aug 2022

See to it that you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it.

Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:13

Sep 2020

“…even though you do not hear it when a person takes one small step, when a hundred people move together – it makes noise, and when a million people move together – it shakes the world. So let’s make a movement together wholeheartedly, and it will shake the world.”

From a Rosh Hashana Talk by Rav Adin Steinsaltz Z"L

Mar 2020

The sun rises, and the sun sets—
And glides back to where it rises.

Ecclesiastes 1:5

Dec 2018

In fame there is no virtue, in virtue there is no fame.

Saint François de Sales

The meaning of man’s life lies in his perfecting the universe. He has to distinguish and redeem the sparks of holiness scattered throughout the darkness of the world.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

One who lends money is greater than one who performs charity, and one who forms a partnership is greater than all.

Talmud Shabbat 63a

Jan 2014

He hath made every thing beautiful in its time; also He hath set the world in their heart.

Kohelet 3, 11.

Dec 2013

For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Jul 2013

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

May 2013

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

Mar 2013

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Dec 2012

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14

Nov 2012

One who lends money is greater than one who performs charity, and one who forms a partnership is greater than all.

Talmud Shabbat 63a

Aug 2012

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth – teaching others.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jul 2012

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Khalil Gibran

May 2012

Do not do to others what would be hateful if done to you. That is the whole of the Torah. All the rest is commentary. Now go and study.

Ethics of the Fathers, 2:7

May 2012

He (Rabbi Tarfon) also used to say: It is not your obligation to complete the task, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it entirely…

Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14

Apr 2012

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mar 2012

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mar 2012

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

The Baal Shem Tov

Feb 2012

When they fell a fruit-bearing tree, a voice travels from one end to the other and is never heard.

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer, Chap. 34.

Feb 2012

Remember: Things can go from the very worst to the very best… in just the blink of an eye.

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

Jan 2012

Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.

Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a)