Elie Wiesel Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Tradition, Share

• In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coffee, Waiting, Tradition

  "10 Questions for Elie Wiesel". Interview with Jeff Chu, content.time.com. January 22, 2006.

• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

• [Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Religious, Principles

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

  Elie Wiesel

  Learning, Jewish Tradition, Immortality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

• I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Communication, Jewish Tradition

  Source: www.npr.org

• I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Single Child

• The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Blessed, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jewish Tradition, Sinai, Said

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

  Elie Wiesel

  Song, Passion, Yams

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• [Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Yams, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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