Judaism Quotes

“If there are ranks in suffering, Israel takes precedence of all the nations.”

“As a result of the destruction of the Temple, I was born in the diaspora, but I have always considered myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.”

“Being gay and Jewish, I have two traditions of guilt to draw on.”

“To be a Jew is to be in a state of permanent tension between the particular and the universal.”

“It is not the dogma that is the main thing, but the observance.”

“The argument with God is the soul of the Jewish religion.”

“We are the people of the book, not the people of the gun.”

“The whole point of the Jewish religion is that it is a religion of doing.”

“The essence of Jewish education is not just the transmission of information, but the cultivation of a soul.”

“Every mitzvah is a connection, a bridge between the finite and the Infinite.”

“Our task is not merely to preserve Judaism, but to make it vibrant and compelling for the next generation.”

“The Bible is the people's book of religion; the Talmud is the book of the people's life.”

“The Bible is the most precious and the most profound of all human creations.”

“The central passion of the Jewish people is the passion for justice.”

“The messianic hope is the particular Jewish form of utopia.”

“The task of the modern Orthodox Jew is to be a citizen of two worlds, to live in both the sacred and the secular.”

“Community is not a collection of individuals, but a sacred covenant.”

“We want a living, progressing, and developing Judaism.”

“The problem of the diaspora is the problem of a partial identity.”

“Judaism is a way of living life in the presence of God.”