...ANA LEVY-LYONS As religious people, we face our lives head on, knowing that our time is short here. And so we live with a little fire and intensity, fierceness and reverence. We live with all our hearts, with all our souls, and with all our very-ness. We know that there is no time to waste...

... networks of social movements) for a bottom-up, self-organizing politics of enlightenment. Such a politics would be a worldwide political project—based on the values of the “essential doctrine” that is the core of Ashoka’s Dhamma—for a global system grounded in reverence for life, nonviolence, tolerance...

... the gutted / resonant hull of the turtle,” and whose last poem, quoting an old saying, ends “ that’s the story of my life .” It also reframes what for Pinsky is an essential human trait: reverence, in this case, not for religion, but for culture and the act of creation itself. For Pinsky, our culture...

... generously onto the community. Above all, praise! (“Praise precedes faith,” says Rabbi Abraham Heschel.) And drink in the wellsprings of gratitude and reverence that praise sets flowing. ...

... megafauna we see on the covers of National Geographic , whose beauty and strength we revere from a distance but whose lives have little to no bearing on our own. We donate money to organizations that save them; we put photos of them up on our walls. My work doesn’t focus very much on these animals. I...

.... Yitgadalv’yitkadash shimkha, Yehuda. M ay your n am e rem ain g reat and revered a m on g lo v ers o f life an d g o d -w restlers everyw h ere...

... it. As for the spiritual stakes involved in this historic food struggle, I can do no better than quote Wendell Berry: “To live we must daily break the body and blood of creation … when we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently it is a sacrament; when we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively...

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... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG TIKKUN 15 his authority against Catholic dissenters. It was probably Heschels idea to represent the exiled Jesuit with an empty chair on stage. The Hasidim of Bratslav, after the death of their revered leader Rabbi Nahman, reverently placed...

..., and in the much broader spiri­ reverence of many Tibetans for the Dalai Living tual revolution, which Lama. The emperor Ashoka, who reigned Through would transform so­ 273-232 BCE...

... of the problem. Magnuson shows how the culture of consumption, which has such deep roots in American society, is doing its best to distract us so that we continue to consume fast-disappearing resources, to the detriment of our own futures. Magnuson envisions a new economy based on reverence for natural beauty...

... to basic, doctrinally neutral words (faith, prayer, sin, love, justice, hope, redemption, grace, hospitality, and reverence) as wellsprings of fresh insight. She uses personal narrative and wisdom literature from a range of traditions to stir up new ways to inhabit these words. Faith, she tells us...

... is, at a minimum, a heterodox interpretation of Islam. For instance, while they revere Ali and Hussein — holy figures in Shia Islam — Rebel Land relays accounts in Alevi texts “of the Prophet bowing to Ali and the Prophet and Ali becoming one.” This, unsurprisingly, has been seen as deeply disturbing...

... to civilize their less cultivated, lower-class peers from Mizrahi and Russian backgrounds.” And Blumenthal laments that “many members of the Zionist left still claim to revere the late Israeli writer Yeshayahu Leibowitz, but few are willing to heed his . . . call for Israeli youth to refuse army service...

... between the values of political resistance and of obeying the Torah. The mil­ itant Chasidim who joined the revolt refused to violate the Torah by fighting on the Sab­ bath, making them extremely vulnerable to attack. Revering the Torah but interpreting its commandments in a new light, Mattathias...

..., dignity, and opportunity that refreshes the American identity. The money that immigrants send home is a sign of individual responsibility and family loyalty, values we revere. Recent immigrants are us, not them. We should embrace the immigrant dream of American...

... the power of pure music to evoke deep feelings of peace, beauty, reverence, and gratitude in which life is affirmed. And while she focuses her works on Jewish themes, her music reflects the enormous width of world music with a generous helping of Coplandesque grandeur. Warshauer’s newest album draws...

.... The purpose of the kosher laws is not altogether mysterious: by making meat eating inconvenient at best, they clearly convey moral consternation over the killing of animals. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, the revered founder of America’s Modern Orthodox movement, wrote, “There is a distinct reluctance, almost...