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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine com

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. – Jonathan Sacks

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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. – Jonathan Sacks

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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. – Jonathan Sacks

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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. – Lynn White, Jr.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. – Franz Kafka

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