Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Simon Greenberg
Russian-born American Conservative Rabbi and Scholar, President of American Jewish University, Chancellor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
"The human soul is no more than a spark of the divine in us, which upon death returns to reunite with God as the original source of its being, than is the body."
"One does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly envelops us. All one need do is to notice intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant smiling."