179 Quotes About Judaism

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Why would I make it up?" I said. If I were going to make something up, it would be something like: studying too much for your bar mitzvah can stunt your growth, or eating only Chinese food causes premature baldness. Personally, I would like to spend less time studying Torah and more time eating pizza.

The Daily Torah Portion is to your concealed fate, as a flashlight is to a dark path.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.

Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

For all with the courage to explore, God awaits.