By David Wolpe — 2017
We need to think about the values we treasure, the world we create and the tablets we are writing. The Torah must be both adopted and adapted in this new world. We stand again at Sinai, and the revelation, dark or bright, is in our hands.
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The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.
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