"The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be……" — Israel Shenker
"The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry."
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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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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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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either…
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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