Joseph Telushkin Quotes

#1. This is what true love is about, the Rebbe told Sharfstein. "It's the small acts that you do on a daily basis that turn two people from a 'you and I' into an 'us.'" Sharfstein

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#2. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.

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#3. As the former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has expressed it: "If the Nazis searched out every Jew in hate, the Rebbe wished to search out every Jew in love.

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#4. The fact that you are feeling unhappy does not entitle you to inflict your bad mood on others.

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#5. An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.

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#6. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

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#7. Ameikh ami, ve'Elo-hai-ikh Elo-hai - Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

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#8. sinat chinam, causeless hatred,

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