Quotes About Judaism

Why did the Church restore to Judaism the very converts it had just spent the better part of the Crusades trying to obtain, according to Dr. Netanyahu? Because the converts were bad Catholics? No, not all of them. Or because they were too good at being Catholic? No, not all of them either. Rather, the reason was because: as long as the Catholics still required a people to hate, the Jews had to remain a people doomed to suffer.

Judaism has a lot of rituals, a lot of nonnegotiable behaviors. But we also allow for a great deal of personal freedom. Personal freedom and its sister trait, personal responsibility, are what make the religion so hard. But they are also what make the religion so satisfying.

No. She only dates Jews—religious Jews—if she dates at all. Her oldest boy, Sammy, sometimes talks to me. He says she doesn't go out.

Pero las religiones de Cristo y de Mahoma no surgieron de la nada: provienen de la de Yavé, el Dios local de los judíos que fue el que creó el mundo en seis días. Y claro, con semejantes prisas así le quedó: un engendro chapucero.

Sião ressurgiu dos crematórios e ossuários. A nação judaica ressuscitou desses milhões de mortos. É através deles que ela está viva outra vez. Não sabemos o preço de uma só gota de sangue, de uma única lágrima. Tudo é graça. Se o Eterno é o Eterno, a ele pertence a última palavra sobre cada um de nós.

Giordano Bruno was to take the bolder course of maintaining that the magical Egyptian religion of the world was not only the most ancient but also the only true religion, which both Judaism and Christianity had obscured and corrupted.

Ich bin ein Jude, und wenn es etwas gibt, was Juden in ein bissel mehr als sechstausend Jahren gelernt haben, dann ist es, dass man Kompromisse eingehen muss, um es bis siebentausend zu schaffen.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.

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.

The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them.

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.