“You don’t see things as they are. You see things as you are. -- Talmud” — Jennifer Schneider Copy Share Image
I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“We do not see things as they are, We see them as we are. —The Talmud” — Shirley Impellizzeri Copy Share Image
“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” —The Talmud” — Henry Grayson Copy Share Image
I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, “Grow, grow.” — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is… — H.W. Charles Copy Share Image
The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical… — Nesta Helen Webster Copy Share Image
“But Saadia wasn’t just quarrelsome; he was a good strategist. His persistent attacks achieved the outcome he had wanted, a complete break… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Rav Hisda nodded. “Despite the dangers, people continue to travel, often for long distances. This is what you would inscribe on an… — Maggie Anton Copy Share Image
“Ten strong things have been created in the world. The rock is hard, but the iron cleaves it. The iron is hard,… — Rabbi Judah Copy Share Image
“In Europe it reached Spain, Provence, France and Italy, extending northwards through Germany, to the Rhineland cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms.… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
“The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.” — H.W. Charles Copy Share Image
“Gershom was the first European scholar to try to reconcile the Talmud’s world view to the reality of living in a Christian… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
“The Talmud expresses subtle relationship in an apocryphal story of a dialogue between God and Abraham. God begins by chiding Abraham: „If… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“41 Mishnah Avot 3.23. 4 The compilation of the Talmud Rabbi Tarfon said, The day is short and there is much work,… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is… — David Novak Copy Share Image