Jewish Law Quotes

#1. The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. Jewish Law is like musical notation; it gives meaning to the stuff of life by regulating it in time. The Sabbath is its most sacred interval

Judith Shulevitz

#3. It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

Julius Streicher

#4. Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

Noah Feldman

#5. In the Talmud (a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis) it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah.

Peter Singer

#6. I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

#7. A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

David Novak

#8. Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Cory Booker

#9. If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

Gerhard

#10. Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Sheryl Sandberg

#11. As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

Rowan Williams

#12. I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

Stephane Hessel

#13. So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tori Amos

#14. It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.

Ada Yonath

#15. My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Dorothy Kilgallen

#16. For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.

David Novak

#17. In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#18. The new law forbids foreign funding for imams and mosques, a restriction that does not apply to Christian or Jewish places of worship.

Anonymous

#19. There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

Spike Lee

#20. I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it.

Robin Sharma

#21. Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

Norman Finkelstein

#22. I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

#23. Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law ...

Ira Forman

#24. Familiarity increases carnality.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

#26. DECISIONS
History forgives those who have taken wrong decisions, but never forgives those who have not taken decisions at all. Therefore, take a decision today to make your decision.

Sirshree

#27. All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

Barry Commoner

#28. The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

Herman Wouk

#29. It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.

Judith Butler

#30. [...]if Nazi Germany had not invaded other countries but had simply sought to eliminate the entire Jewish population within its own territorial borders, this would not have constituted a violation of international law, as incredible as this now seems.

Mark Gibney

#31. In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.

Dylan Morrison

#32. although she shook her head.

Shirley Jackson

#33. Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#34. Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

Lewis Pugh

#35. Like the protagonist of her 2006 novel, 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' Ayelet Waldman is a Jewish redhead who attended Harvard Law School and is madly in love with her husband. But the obvious similarities end there.

Katie Hafner

#36. Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

Woody Allen