Dr. Joseph
Age
“If you want to have fulfillment and feel good about yourself you need to recognize your roots and follow G-d. The sooner you realize your identity the better.” Dr. Joseph speaks from personal experience having returned to Judaism. Ideally, he encourages parents to teach their children in order to maintain their context. “If you don’t get taught early it will be more difficult; yet, it is never too late. Go to a Chabad, get connected in community, learn by observing others, get into the Scroll and/or take a trip to Israel, it will transform you.” Dr. Joseph was particularly addressing Jews. Nevertheless, all men should be connected to their roots, know their Creator, realize their purpose and experience true fulfillment.The sooner you realize who you are, the better.
Relevant Quotes
Sayings that get your mind moving...
It is in the shelter of each other that people live.
May the shadows we cast be our true selves.
Don’t underestimate the value of knowledge, yours or others. Seek out those who’ve been there. Ask them what they’ve learned. Listen to them. Distill their wisdom. Apply it to your journey.
A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought. He is asked to surpass his needs, to do more than he understands in order to understand more than he does. In carrying out the word of the Torah he is ushered into the presence of spiritual meaning. Through the ecstasy of deeds he learns to be certain of the heroines of G-d. Right living is a way to right thinking.
Judaism is an attempt to prove that in order to be a man, you have to be more than a man, that in order to be a people we have to be more than a people. Israel was made to be a “holy people.”
Man is more than what he is to himself. In his reason he may be limited, in his will he may be wicked; yet, he stands in a relation to G-d which he may betray but not sever and which constitutes the essential meaning of life. He is the knot in which heaven and earth are interlaced.