December Lights (Part 1): Rededication | Jake Haber

For the first installment of our new holiday series "December Lights", we explored the profound origins of Hanukkah & Kwanzaa, and how we might be inspired to rededicate ourselves to our spiritual path this holiday season. 

 

Quotes:

 

Abraham Heschel:

“Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time. Time is the heart of existence.” 

 

Richard Rohr:

“Daily contemplation is an act of surrender, a deliberate choice to reconnect and realign with the divine flow. It’s how we rededicate ourselves to the work of transformation.”

 

Mahatma Gandhi :

“To pray is not to ask things of God, but to rededicate ourselves to the service of life, truth, and love.”

 

Pema Chödrön :

“Meditation is a constant process of starting over. Every time you return to your breath, you are rededicating yourself to the path of wakefulness.”

 

Dr. Maulana Karenga:

“Kwanzaa was created to introduce and reinforce the importance of African heritage and culture. In the wake of the Watts uprising, it was clear that what was needed was a cultural foundation on which we could rebuild and reaffirm our identity, purpose, and direction as a people.”

 

Reverend Al Sharpton

“You can’t fight for anybody if you don’t fight for everybody. I cannot fight for Black rights if I don’t fight for Jewish rights … because then it becomes a matter of self-aggrandizement rather than fighting for humanity.”