Quotes About Tradition

Judaism is a protest: against empires, hierarchical social structures, and the beliefs that held them in place.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.

Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

Bisognerà, un giorno o l'altro, accettare o volere la conversione che dobbiamo vivere, noi cristiani per tradizione, più fortemente di ogni altro;

The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

Por ello, se propone reformular una ética, coherente dentro de la tradición filosófica islámica, que critique a la Modernidad europea, como expresión de la civilización occidental2.

Por lo demás, el hecho de que una dama de la aristocracia inglesa se venga a nuestro domicilio y se desnude por completo para hablar con nosotros ocurre todos los días y ya no le extraña a nadie.

ejidos." The teaching centers were "foci for ideological fermentation

populismo es el uso demagógico que un líder carismático hace de la legitimidad democrática para prometer la vuelta de un orden tradicional o el acceso a una utopía posible y, logrado el triunfo, consolidar un poder personal al margen de las leyes, las instituciones y las libertades.

En otras palabras, vive prisionero de su casticismo, completamente poseído por su lenguaje de camarero español, por su terrible habla tradicional y desacomplejada, que parece que tenga que ser la única normal, la única eternamente auténtica de aquí a cien mil leguas a la redonda.

The notion of the 'non-Jewish Jew', formulated by Isaac Deutscher in 1958 to outline the profile of the intellectual who breaks with his inherited religion and culture, has now become a metaphor for Jewish modernity. The most

the 'non-Jewish Jew'. The implosion of the traditional