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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
• Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
• America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
• In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
• At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
• God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
• A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
• It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
• Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
• Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
• A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…

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