Best Talmud Quotes
- The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
- I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. — Elie Wiesel
- The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. — Noah Feldman
- All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or… — David Novak
- I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. — Arthur Hertzberg
- I found a fruitful world, because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise I am planting for my children. -Talmud, Taanit 23a — Bible