Rabbi Quotes

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

— Ephraim Mirvis

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

— Lionel Blue

“Smart people always choose comfort over luxury”

— Celso Cukierkorn

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

— Darrel Ray

there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.

— Silvia Tennenbaum

“Rabbi, the Sacred Teacher, Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

— Fran Lebowitz

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

— Jake Epstein

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

— Ed Benguiat

“If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not…

— Kathryn Lasky

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as…

— Tony Campolo

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

— Jack Benny

God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God…

— Eve

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.…

— Ben Katchor

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws…

— Jacques Myard

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

— Steven Van Zandt

If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a…

— Brad Warner

It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith.…

— Glenn Beck

“Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are…

— H.W. Charles

Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank…

— Ben Rosenfield

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the…

— Rodger Kamenetz

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi.…

— Jeff Ross

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself…

— Albert Einstein

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.…

— Arthur Hertzberg

I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,…

— Manis Friedman

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put…

— Anne Lamott

“God did not create the world, He became the world. God became the world to realize himself, in material form, to realize…

— Harry Waton

We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a…

— Nathalia Crane

Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before…

— Gene Wilder

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to…

— Philip Yancey

“One year, on Yom Kippur eve, Salanter did not show up in synagogue for services. The congregation was extremely worried; they could…

— Joseph Telushkin

“The artillery and mortars had been silent for at least the past few hours. After awhile the rabbi stopped initiating new songs.…

— Edward Eliyahu Truitt

“It was on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest of holy days, that a fly flew under the door of the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and…

— Orson Scott Card

Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.

— Genrikh Yagoda

I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

— Ephraim Mirvis

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

— Wilson Mizner

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

— George Steiner