Quotes About Tora

Pasha's full name was Abdur Rehman Hashim; an ex-army officer in the 6th Baloch Rifles, he was handsome and battlefield savvy, and had resigned his commission after refusing an order to fight against Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora Mountains, when the Pakistan military signed up to the Americans' 'war on terror'.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. From screenplay: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Orthodoxy is, in a sense, halacha in a straitjacket. Having had to transform the Oral Tora into a new written one, we have become Karaites of this new Written Tora.