"In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was……" — Israel Shenker
"In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness."
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20 Quotes by Israel Shenker
Israel Shenker has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they…
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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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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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