Precious Words

Rabbi Emanuel Rackman:

“Perhaps, like Socrates, I corrupt youth, but I do teach that Judaism encourages doubt, even as it enjoins faith and commitment,” he wrote in Commentary in 1966. “A Jew dare not live with absolute certainty not only because certainty is the hallmark of the fanatic and Judaism abhors fanaticism, but also because doubt is good for the human soul, its humility, and consequently its greater potential ultimately to discover its Creator.”

New York Times Obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/nyregion/05rackman.html?_r=1&ref=us