Judaism Is About Love Quotes

“Rabbi Yeruham Levovitz (1873–1936): “Woe to a person who is unaware of their shortcomings, because they will not know what to work on. But even greater woe to a person who is unaware of their virtues, because they don’t even know what they have to work with.”
― Shai Held, Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

“But since my actions are not in accordance with my true goal, I am not accomplishing my life’s mission, and I am still not worthy. Things have changed; I am now needed. And yet I go on living as if nothing had changed and I were not needed.59 What we confess on Yom Kippur, says R. Kook, is not our lack of worth, but precisely the opposite: we take responsibility for the fact that we insist on living as if we were worthless, and as if the hour did not need us.”
― Shai Held, Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

“God doesn’t share our ambivalence; God loves us more than we love ourselves.9 This is part of why self-loathing is so religiously”
― Shai Held, Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life