Reb Shlomo Quotes

#1. On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.

Shlomo Carlebach

#2. In no text or archaeological finding do we find the term "Land of Israel" used to refer to a defined geographic region. This

Shlomo Sand

#3. The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

Shlomo Breznitz

#4. I'm just here so I won't get fined.

Marshawn Lynch

#5. To the dismay of anti-Semites, the Jews were never a foreign "ethnos" of invaders from afar but rather an autochthonous population whose ancestors, for the most part, converted to Judaism before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.17

Shlomo Sand

#6. Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning.

Shlomo Carlebach

#7. One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them legal protection.

Shlomo Sand

#8. In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.

Nicholson Baker

#9. A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

Barry S. Strauss

#10. I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

Fran Lebowitz

#11. There is no tears without joy; there is no joy without tears.

Shlomo Carlebach

#12. Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Henry Ford

#13. And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.

David Suzuki

#14. Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

David Wolpe

#15. Names of regions and countries change over time, and it is sometimes common to refer to ancient lands using names assigned to them later in history. However, this linguistic custom has typically been practiced only in the absence of other known and acceptable names for the places in question.

Shlomo Sand

#16. I believe neither in the past existence of a Jewish people, exiled from its land, nor in the premise that the Jews are originally descended from the ancient land of Judea.

Shlomo Sand

#17. Removing stress enhances health.

William Gladstone

#18. It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night.

Gillian Flynn

#19. Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.

Shlomo Sand

#20. Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether

E.W. Bullinger

#21. When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

Jane Elliott

#22. Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.

Shlomo Sand

#23. My main goal in this book is to deconstruct the concept of the Jewish "historical right" to the Land of Israel and its associated nationalist narratives, whose only purpose was to establish moral legitimacy for the appropriation of territory.

Shlomo Sand

#24. I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

Shlomo Sand

#25. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.

Shlomo Sand

#26. Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.

Adam Lambert

#27. When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

Shlomo Riskin

#28. We are so used to thinking of our conscious selves as in charge that all the evidence documenting our lack of control - how much we depend on split-second perceptions and aesthetic judgments - is rather scary.

Shlomo Benartzi

#29. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

Shlomo Carlebach

#30. If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

Shlomo Sand

#31. In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.

Shlomo Carlebach

#32. I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

Erma Bombeck