25 Torah Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah. Meir Kahane

Reality World Illusion Torah

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah. Meir Soloveichik

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. Pico Iyer

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 Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. David Novak

I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking. Iliza Shlesinger

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 Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Dignity Memory Book Law Radical Living Our Our Lives Embarking Ancient Torah Telling Give Perennial Attempt Empathy Merely Text Human Being Story Act Foundational Lives Here Jewish

Torah values are the ones that inform my life. Leonard Cohen

Life Values My Life Torah Inform

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah. Matisyahu

Life My Life Everything Torah Through Judaism Lens

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God. Meir Soloveichik

God Will Focus Jews Torah Embodied Embodiment Christians

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there. Neri Oxman

Life Beautiful Change Creative Language Sense Live Think Torah Borrowed Something Given Point Spoken Look Idiom Always Permission Goal Very Any Anything Predicted Hebrew Forward Search Expression

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. Ovadia Yosef

Natural Natural Disasters Too Torah Study Disasters Terrible Because Little

Where there is Torah it sustains the world. Ovadia Yosef

World Torah Where Sustains

I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs. Rita Rudner

For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19 other holy books - were copied and passed down in the various Jewish communities from generation to generation. Ronen Bergman

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In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation. Simon Schama

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. Simon Schama

I study Torah all the time. Amar'e Stoudemire

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