70 Rabbi Quotes
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Famous Rabbi Quotes
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. — Shimon Peres
Your time will come to follow me Jew — Adolf Eichmann
A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!" — Henny Youngman
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. — Barbara Walters
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. — Michael J. Fox
Everybody is somebody's Jew. — Primo Levi
Ten Jews on a hedgehog and they don't slaughter it. — Moroccan Proverbs
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. — Goldwin Smith
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. — Sandra Bernhard
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Anna Paglia
If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'. — Martin Luther
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. — Henny Youngman
Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated — Franz Kafka
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. — David Gelernter
Short Rabbi Quotes
- When you say good morning to the rabbi, say good morning also to the rabbi’s wife. — Yiddish Proverbs
- Better a thief for a neighbor than an overzealous rabbi. — Yiddish Proverbs
- The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy. — Yiddish Proverbs
- Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning. — Shlomo Carlebach
- Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism. — Genrikh Yagoda
- I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian. — Jack Benny
- Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. — Fran Lebowitz
- To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. — Ed Benguiat
- I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. — Lionel Blue
- there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses. — Silvia Tennenbaum
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More Rabbi Quotes
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. — Abraham Isaac Kook
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when? — Hillel the Elder
Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created. — Ovadia Yosef
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies. — Yisroel Salanter
There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. — Julius Streicher
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give. — Samson Raphael Hirsch
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. — Noah Weinberg
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. — Lawrence Kushner
A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one. — Ariel Sharon
It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted. — Ovadia Yosef
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya? — Martin Buber
I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night. — Judas Iscariot
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929) — Albert Einstein
With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'. — Michael Jackson
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person. — Thomas Szasz
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. — Charlton Heston
I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law. — Lenny Bruce
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make. — Steven Weinberg
Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit. — Russell Simmons
I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer. — David Wolpe
In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist." — Victor Frederick Weisskopf
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible. — Paulo Coelho
The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ. — Bernard Lazare
Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them. — Solomon Schechter
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead. — Charles Villiers Stanford
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. — Gary A. Kowalski
I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat. — Brennan Manning
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time. — A. J. Jacobs
It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. — Lionel Blue
Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon law, the Islamic civilization boasted hundreds of women who were authorities in Islamic law and Islamic theology and that taught some of the most famous male jurists and left behind a remarkable corpus of writings. — Khaled Abou El Fadl
A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - Сhurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members. — C. S. Lewis
I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi. — Jake Epstein
The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs. — Nathalia Crane
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize — Arthur Hertzberg
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