"Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and……" — Israel Shenker
"Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason."
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20 Quotes by Israel Shenker
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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity,…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a…
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a…
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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…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably,…
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
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