Talmud Quotes

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

— Frank Moore Cross

Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

— Yair Lapid

“There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.”

— H.W. Charles

“Hospitality is one form of worship. —THE TALMUD Like”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith...

— Herman Wouk

“We do not see things as they are, We see them as we are. —The Talmud”

— Shirley Impellizzeri

“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” —The Talmud”

— Henry Grayson

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

— Elie Wiesel

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

— Zygmunt Bauman

The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost."

— Frederic Farrar

“According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, “Grow, grow.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

— Elie Wiesel

All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is…

— David Novak

“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly…

— Bridges McCall

“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

“The Talmud expresses subtle relationship in an apocryphal story of a dialogue between God and Abraham. God begins by chiding Abraham: „If…

— Leonard Shlain

“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

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

When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the…

— Joseph Hertz

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

Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…

— Adolf Hitler

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because…

— Jonathan Rosen

The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia…

— Louis Finkelstein

The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes…

— Elie Wiesel

“The Talmud is not only an encyclopedia of law but a work of folk art, a hymn to the Lord rising out…

— Herman Wouk

“Rav Hisda nodded. “Despite the dangers, people continue to travel, often for long distances. This is what you would inscribe on an…

— Maggie Anton

“In Europe it reached Spain, Provence, France and Italy, extending northwards through Germany, to the Rhineland cities of Mainz, Speyer and Worms.…

— Harry Freedman

“Ten strong things have been created in the world. The rock is hard, but the iron cleaves it. The iron is hard,…

— Rabbi Judah

“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The…

— Jonathan Rosen

“The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack civilization into words…

— Jonathan Rosen

“There is a moment in the tractate Menahot when the Rabbis imagine what takes place when Moses ascends Mount Sinai to receive…

— Jonathan Rosen

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

— Arthur Hertzberg

“You don’t see things as they are. You see things as you are. -- Talmud”

— Jennifer Schneider

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

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

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

In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me.…

— Moses Hess

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,…

— Abraham Cahan

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

“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