Thought
Freedman’s thought centers on the ongoing struggle of the Jewish people to live a life of Derech Eretz and moral example in the Land of Israel, and to contribute to the wellbeing of mankind as a whole. Central to this vision is the idea of “Creation in Service of God.” Drawing on a fundamental insight of Rabbi Joseph Dov Baer Soloveitchik he sees the Jewish people and mankind as having their essence in being creators who help complete the divine creation. This idea has a further elaboration in a subsequent work of thought “In the Service of God.” There he contends that it is primarily through our actions and decisions in everyday life that the mass of mankind is involved in the divine creation.
Another major dimension of his thought focuses on his meditations on the human condition and future. These are at the heart of his most comprehensive philosophical work, the still-in-process “Thoughts.”
Freedman has also written in other genres, including “thought-stories,” philosophical and religious meditations, essays, novellas, and a variety of autobiographical forms.
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Famous quotes containing the word thought:
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—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 6:34.
From the Sermon on the Mount.
“We thought it would be worth the while to read the epitaphs where so many were lost at sea; however, as not only their lives, but commonly their bodies also, were lost or not identified, there were fewer epitaphs of this sort than we expected, though there were not a few. Their graveyard is the ocean.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)