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> [My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/my-approach-is-not-a-scientific-approach-for-that-we-have-greater/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [ \[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac\] was the greatest commentator \[of the Bible\] we ever had. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/rabbi-shlomo-ben-isaac-was-the-greatest-commentator-of-the-bible-we/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/my-ambition-really-was-even-as-a-child-to-be-a-writer-a-commentator/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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## Other authors on Commentators

## More by Elie Wiesel

> [A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/a-religious-person-answers-to-god-not-to-the-elected-or-non-elected/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/one-more-stab-to-the-heart-one-more-reason-to-hate-one-less-reason-to/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/what-all-these-victims-need-above-all-is-to-know-that-they-are-not/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-feel-that-books-just-like-people-have-a-destiny-some-invite-sorrow/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [ \[Chinese\] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soon-be-in-a-few-years-two/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-i-write-it-so-as-not-to-go-mad-or-on-the-contrary-to-go-mad-in/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/take-the-story-of-cain-and-abel-why-were-we-given-that-story/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/mankind-must-remember-that-peace-is-not-god-s-gift-to-his-creatures/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/the-world-the-world-is-not-interested-in-us-today-everything-is/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-question-possessed-a-power-that-was-lost-in-the-answer/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-this-century-more-than-any-other-really-has-seen-the/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-said-wearily-i-have-more-faith/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/as-you-know-i-describe-shirat-ha-yam-as-part-of-an-epic-story-that/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-jew-somewhere-in-his-being-should-set-apart-a-zone-of-hate/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

> [“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-hope-help-us-to-survive-or-not-too-many-families-clung-to-it-all/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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