Words Worth Noting - November 17, 2024

“My dear friend, the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, was once accosted by a lady who complained that the synagogue service did not say what she meant. ‘Madam,’ said Heschel, ‘the idea is not that the service should say what we mean but that we should mean what the service says.’”

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus in response to a letter in First Things August-September 2004