What I Believe

What I Believe

• God holds all in His hands, upholding, enabling every moment.

• We truly receive all from God's hands.

• Like Milarepa, we can and must learn from ALL things.

• Chafetz Chaim is right, we need to truly watch our tongues every moment of every day and not use them to ridicule, disparage or embarrass anyone.

• We are loved. We are God's children. We are sanctified. All people, all life.

• Humility before wisdom, before Scripture is true wisdom.

• We need a Halachah to help us understand our role as receivers of the gift of life.

• Since the "Torah is not in heaven," we have a duty to create chiddushin (novel interpretations), to continuously interpret from within the tradition with complete reverence and humility.

• We are here to learn, grow and give.

• Like Ronald Johnson's Ark, we must bring everything into the poem that we create of our lives.

What would you add?