For One To Be Free There Must

As Long As We Say: "alright, It Is Truth For Me, And I Believe In It And I Am Ready To Fight For It, But I Accept That Others Have Different Beliefs - And So Let Me Have A Closer Look At What They Believe" - We Can Gain From Our Intercourse Thanks To Our Difference, Not Despite Our Difference.

In A Liquid Modern Life There Are No Permanent Bonds, And Any That We Take Up For A Time Must Be Tied Loosely So That They Can Be Untied Again, As Quickly And As Effortlessly As Possible, When Circumstances Change - As They Surely Will In Our Liquid Modern Society, Over And Over Again.

Jews Are No Longer Pressed And Obliged To Fight, Hide Or Deny Their Jewishness. What For? No One Actually Requires Today To Abandon The Idiosyncrasy Of Some Other Culture Or Ethnic Tradition. The Great Achievement Of This Last Period Is That We Have Been Slowly, Sometimes Reluctantly, Yet Steadily, Learning The Art Of Living With Differences.

Relationships, Like Cars, Should Undergo Regular Services To Make Sure They Are Still Roadworthy.

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.