Quotes from Jacob Neusner

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

the Mishnah is a document of imagination and fantasy, describing out of the shards and remnants of reality how things are, meaning how they are supposed to be

The Mishnah is from no one special in utopia, to whom it may concern.

Civilisation hangs suspended, from generation to generation, by the gossamer strand of memory. If only one cohort of mothers and fathers fails to convey to its children what it has learned from its parents, then the great chain of learning and wisdom snaps. If the guardians of human knowledge stumble only one time, in their fall collapses the whole edifice of knowledge and understanding.