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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
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
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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.

Hermann Adler
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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.

Joseph Hertz
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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
Abraham Isaac Kook
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Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise
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Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter
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Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

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