Elie Wiesel Quotes About Moses

Quotes about: Moses

• Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Evil, Heaven

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.183, Schocken

• I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Criticism, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• [Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Sorry, Moses

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Men, Elderly

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

  Elie Wiesel

  Army, Firsts, Moses

• I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Moses, Mendelssohn

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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