49 Hebrew Quotes for You to Enjoy

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. Lyndon B. Johnson

Life Love Faith Freedom Spiritual Society Our Way Insights Prophets Democratic Israel America Human Common Hebrew Human Freedom Illuminated

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities. Amos Oz

Music You Writing Bit Evoke Inside Some Echoes Like Cathedral Empty Huge Very Modern May Hebrew Chamber Playing Careful

There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one. Bari Weiss

No Question Toward Over Biased Calendar Am Question Hebrew

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast. Caroline Leavitt

Me School Mother Other Cried Took Kids Outcast Somehow More Knew Go Friends Wanted Hebrew Even Each Jewish

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn't a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you're reading your Torah portion, you're not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky. Clara Mamet

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The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim. Cynthia Ozick

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. Dara Horn

God Bible Events Remember Recording Understanding Past Jews Obeyed Through Historically Times Hebrew Them Lens Dozens Present

I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn

You Sense Garbage Saved Books Say About Writers Scholar Study Know Most Sort Another Am Shelves Were Lot Very Yiddish Artist Forgotten Where Literally Hebrew Literature Means Aspect Whole Aware Career

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah. Daveed Diggs

School Out Mitzvah Hebrew Bar Bar Mitzvah

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. David Miliband

History Memory Speak Word Understand Closest Hebrew

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. David Novak

Bible Old Interpretation Christianity Moral Above Implementation Judaism Testament Traditions Affirmation Common Hebrew Old Testament Teaching United

From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel. F. Sionil Jose

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. Harold Bloom

You Yourself People First Before Beginning Study Supposed Judaism Make Era Tradition End Very Essence Common Hebrew Which Century Holy Notion Nowhere Present Second

Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population. Ilan Stavans

Women Communicate Language Later Considered Eastern Eastern Europe Could Write Writers Longer Masses Years Yiddish Children Order Hebrew Century Realized Europe Illiterate Population Originally Needed

German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it. Janeane Garofalo

It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century. Jay Parini

Great Man Language Young Alexander Some Seems More Scholarly Spoke Likely Learned Dominated Greek Being After Hebrew Young Man Region Century Conjecture Jesus Fourth

I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved. Jesse Andrews

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling. Jonathan Sacks

Work Bible Blessing Prosperity Values Poverty Market Market Economy Out Spirit Sacred Divine Noble Crushes Economy Well Calling Material Task Hebrew Body Deeply Set

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