It is always a desire and a will that…

It is always a desire and a will that make a law obligatory; and the meaning of the revealed law in Judaism is that the law's obligatory nature derives from the expressed will of God.

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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Even the patriarch Abraham, our tradition says, stood and pleaded with the Master of the universe as with someone present and listening. Our tradition counts it among the very first obligations simply to know, in your bones, that there is such a God — for what gives any law its real force is never the rule itself but the living will standing behind it. The sky is watched, and watched by One who is on your side. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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