Rabbinic Quotes

#1. My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Norman Lamm

#2. Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.

Meir Soloveichik

#3. Judaism is not, and never has been, a single stream of thought, but a river formed of many, often contradictory, streams, and rabbinic texts are composites of different kinds of thinking.

Howard Schwartz

#4. Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.

N. T. Wright

#5. Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Meir Soloveichik

#6. it says: "In no case did he appeal to the rabbinic schools of teaching with their traditions and precepts of men. He faithfully referred his

M. James Penton

#7. All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

David Novak

#8. Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Herman Wouk

#9. Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.

Stephanie M. Sellers

#10. I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

Agatha Christie

#12. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Sun Tzu

#13. And what was he protecting you from just now?" Samuel gestured to the ceiling. "Did he think I was going to kill you with my tongue?

Kenya Wright

#14. What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

David Brooks