19th-century Rabbi Quotes

Abraham Isaac Kook

Leo Baeck

Solomon Schechter

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

Jews will move increasingly to vegetarianism out of their own deepening knowledge of what their tradition commands as they understand it in this age.

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.

Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

Abraham Isaac Kook

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Solomon Schechter

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.