https://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=23694 Newest articles written by Rafael Castro Copyright 2026, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. Mon, 01 Jan, 0001 12:00:00 EST Mon, 01 Jan 0001 12:00:00 EST https://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=4659817 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4659817/jewish/What-I-a-Gentile-Owe-Torah-Observant-Jews.htm Since college days, Torah-observant Jews have taught me to express esteem with aid rather than with praise. Nevertheless, the repeated assaults against your community make me feel the time is right to write a few words on what I, an Italian Gentile, owe your community. Torah-observant Jews have taught me that reason and faith are friends; that doubt is holier than certainty, and that there is no question too daring or impertinent to be asked from either G‑d or man. You made me appreciate faith as a faculty of the mind, and reason as a faculty of the heart. Torah-observant Jews helped me remember that tears will always surrender to hope, and that the lessons hardship teaches are essential to maturing and becoming a true mensch. Torah-observant Jews taught me to help the poor while respecting the rich, since kindness and success are both crucial to building a better world. The rabbis I listen to insist that charity provides not alms, but education, values, an Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:00:00 EST