Inspiration and Perspiration (Rabbi Sacks on Tetzaveh, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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Judaism's Greatness Comes From the Details
All the high ideals in the world count for little until they are turned into habits of action that become habits of the heart. Judaism's greatness is that it takes high ideals and exalted visions, image of God, faith in God, love of neighbor, and turns them into patterns of behavior. Al-Acha, Jewish law involves a set of routines that, like those of the great creative minds, reconfigures the brain giving discipline to our lives. The more you seek spiritual heights the more you need the ritual and routine of hala'cha, the Jewish way for God.
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