Speaking and living the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
The weight says how heavily the value counts in the texts of a tradition. The share beside it says how widespread it is. Rows drawn faintly rest on fewer than five texts; they say something about those texts, nothing yet about the tradition.
These sentences come from sermons and addresses that know nothing of each other. They are set alternately by tradition so that how close they come is visible.
The essential ethical problem here is not that someone pays attention to their appearance and their public image, but that they use the image as a substitute.
Speak the truth, speak little, speak kindly, speak gently. Offend no one, not even in thought; what is not right in word or deed.
Our great temptation is to place the many Caesars of life in the place of God. Is not science deified? Is not technology absolutized, is not sex worshipped?
The good one has done may indeed be much, but it does not help one to attain bliss. One remains seven days in hell.
God does not separate the worship from the worshipper. So when you come before him and bring your worship, God looks at the worshipper just as much as he looks at the worship you bring him.
The pattern across all three narratives is clear: NVIDIA foregrounds potential climate benefits, short-term grid flexibility, and relative efficiency gains, but diverts attention from the absolute growth in energy demand and emissions of AI.
Because he spoke the truth, lived the truth, and showed the truth. Because he told us the truth about the past, embodied the truth about the present, and inspired the truth about the future.
In the end, it remains unproven who knew what and when. But the evidence does not speak in Netanyahu's favor.
Being Real means that we have to live in a way that reflects reality, the reality of who we are.
Whoever raises weapons against us is not one of us, and whoever cheats us is not one of us.
The powerful and tyrannical forces can no longer control the narrative. They have their own narrative, but we also see the other side very quickly and very rapidly.
It is forbidden to place all hope and confidence in a human being
Convenience makes one way of doing something easier; dependence makes every other way of doing it almost unthinkable.
But this blind spot, this apprenticeship, this unbearable situation led to the fact that it, it was unavoidable for me, I had the feeling, hey, we have to do this.
The entire field of gender-affirmative treatment of children and adolescents must urgently return from ideology to evidence-based discourse.
Ka'b wanted to give away his entire wealth in gratitude; the Prophet (saw) however advised him to keep a portion (his share of Khaibar). Hadhrat Ka'b (ra) vowed to always speak the truth, as he was certain that Allah had saved him because of his honesty towards the Prophet (saw).
The question now is how Canada can respond to a system that can pick up a false accusation, amplify it across platforms and media, and ultimately put real Canadians in danger.
The most interesting thing about antisemitism is that it doesn't need any Jews. So for example, if you look at, for example, Japan during the Second World War and afterwards, a highly antisemitic country, and it had a Jewish population of, I think, 2,000.
Communication actually begins with the person themselves. We have a communication with ourselves. When we wake up in the morning, the person we first come into contact with is actually ourselves again.
There is no unchanging fixed core in us. You are a dynamic interplay of your body, your feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and your consciousness.
A perfect society can therefore only come into being if there are perfect people. And what is a perfect person? Someone who is not deceived by the appearances of the sense world, someone who has transcended them.
Dharma shows us how we recognise and understand the world of phenomena, its meaning, and that we can categorise everything that arises and perishes within it and know why things fundamentally run the way they do.
He was convinced that if the Torah offers only a narrow path, all those who wish to develop other areas of their personality will leave the community. Not because they reject Judaism, but because Judaism rejects them.
Both he and the other great Fathers of our Church are (must be) for us today as well the great living examples of making not a single concession or retreat in matters of faith, just as they did!
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