Judaism Quotes - Page 14

• Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Hatred, Noble

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• I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Spiritual, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Perspective, Three

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Holocaust

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.

  Will Self

  Writing, Islam, Trying

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• The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Law, People

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

  Chaim Potok

  Calvinism

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• The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Strong, Race, Numbers

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• I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

  Isla Fisher

  Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Fascinating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

  Norman Lamm

  Biblical, Study, Chiefs

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

  Josh Gad

  Spiritual, Religious, Wife

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• What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

  Harold Bloom

  Essence, People, Eras

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• Judaism was not a religion but a law.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Law, Jew

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• Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.

  Dave Hunt

  Son, Intelligent, Simple

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• Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Country, Pride, Israel

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

  Janet Suzman

  Forever, House, Looks

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• Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, Government

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Respect, Problem, Holy

  "Iranian Press Defiant Over Israel". news.bbc.co.uk. October 29, 2005.

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• Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

  John Woolman

  Love, Father, May

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• I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!

  Mary Daly

  Buddhism, Islam, Derivatives

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• To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Dear Ones, Way

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What seems new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Workout, Seems

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• Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Mother, Atheist, Father

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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