Few Are Guilty, But All

There Is No Answer To Auschwitz...to Try To Answer Is To Commit A Supreme Blasphemy. Israel Enables Us To Bear The Agony Of Auschwitz Without Radical Despair, To Sense A Ray Of God's Radiance In The Jungles Of History.

Indeed, The Sort Of Crimes And Even The Amount Of Delinquency That Fill The Prophets Of Israel With Dismay Do Not Go Beyond That Which We Regard As Normal, As Typical Ingredients Of Social Dynamics. To Us A Single Act Of Injustice--cheating In Business, Exploitation Of The Poor--is Slight; To The Prophets, A Disaster. To Us Injustice Is Injurious To The Welfare Of The People; To The Prophets It Is A Deathblow To Existence: To Us, An Episode; To Them, A Catastrophe, A Threat To The World.

God Is Everywhere Or Nowhere, The Father Of All People Or Of None, Concerned About Everything Or Nothing. Only In His Presence Shall We Learn That The Glory Of Humankind Is Not In Its Will To Power But In Its Power Of Compassion.

When I Marched With Martin Luther King In Selma, I Felt My Legs Were Praying.

Pagans Exalt Sacred Things, The Prophets Extol Sacred Deeds.