Shema yisrael Adonai eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. “That’s all you need to know,” the American rabbi said matter-of-factly. “That’s faith in a nutshell. A simple declaration of the authority of the spirit. An acceptance of meaning—above idols, above objects, above kings and emperors, above facts, above actuality, above all.”