... justice to God means being open to the creative power of God within us. Dues #2: Caring The biblical witness also reveals that our God is a caring God a God for whom kindness and mercy warm the breath that the Holy Spirit breathes on us. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin currently serves the Synagogue of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. In his recent book, Words That Hurt, Words That Heal (New York: William Morrow, 1996), he tells how he begins his presentations. He asks his audience how many of them can go for 24 ...
... . People are strange. They will hate in the name of love, kill in the name of peace and demean in the name of holiness. Some of the greatest evil in this world is perpetrated by people who act under the cloak of religion. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in a book on Jewish Humor tells about a report some years ago in The Wall Street Journal. This report told of the arrest of two prominent Jewish businessmen who had defrauded people in the computer industry. In investigating their backgrounds, the Journal learned ...
... . You can’t change human nature.” It had to be difficult for early Christians to accept Paul. Particularly, there had to be a lot of resentment in the part Paul played in the martyrdom of Stephen. It reminds me of a story Rabbi Joseph Telushkin tells on Billy Wilder, the famed Hollywood director who was Jewish. Wilder served with the United States Army Psychological Warfare Division during World War II. After the war, some Germans wrote Wilder for permission to put on a play depicting the crucifixion of ...
... us, the love that enfolds us, the providence that guides us. In a very real sense, gratitude is the key to a functioning faith. "I did not make the air I breathe," says Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, "nor the sun that warms me ... I did not endow the muscles of hand and brain with the strength to plough and plant and harvest ... I know I am not ... according to BibleWorks for Windows 6.0.012d (2003). 3. Cited in The Book of Jewish Values by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (New York: Bell Tower, 2000), p. 303 f. 4. Ibid, p. 99.
... . I thus yield control to another, my enemy, and doom myself to suffer the consequences of the wrong. I once heard an immigrant rabbi make an astonishing statement. ‘Before coming to America, I had to forgive Adolf Hitler,’ he said. ‘I did not want to bring Hitler ... www.staidanswinnipeg.ca/index_files/S06-04-09%20-%20Adulation%20or%20Anger.pdf. 5. Joseph Telushkin, The Ten Commandments of Character (New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2003), pp. 37-38. 6. Dr. Les Parrott, Shoulda Coulda ...
