What Does Good Faith Look Like in Jewish Life?

“Good faith partners don’t quote scripture at each other.” Working with people from multiple faith backgrounds, I often say this and find general agreement among accomplices in justice work. Jewish teachers regularly cite sacred sources, from the Five Books of Moses all the way through current writings. Many Jews quote texts all the time and do much more than say: “Look, I have a source to back up my argument.” As a rabbinic colleague pointed out, we try not to do this “at” each other, so much as with one another.