"The work of man is to respond to……" — David Novak

"The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now."

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55 Quotes by David Novak

David Novak has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization…
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question…
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us…
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common:…
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law…
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological…
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel…
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as…

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More Commandments Quotes

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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage… — Gary Bauer
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom… — Ezra Taft Benson
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. — Malcolm Bradbury
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. — Tupac Shakur
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you… — Richard Dawkins
Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create… — Sarah Palin
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us… — Martin Luther
His face was filled with broken commandments. — John Masefield
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We… — James Madison
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game… — Steve Martin

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