American Rabbi Quotes

Shmuley Boteach
Irving Greenberg
Norman Lamm
Manis Friedman
Maurice Davis
Bonnie Koppell

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Norman Lamm
Norman Lamm
If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.

Manis Friedman
Manis Friedman
A master of happiness will appreciate what he or she has while they have them and the moment any specific thing is gone or lost, the focus will be on other things to appreciate and be grateful for. At times, this could be gratitude for the memories that remain. Material and physical objects are temporary, memories are forever.

Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.

Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

Vegetarianism is an ideal way to actualize the Torah's vision of a world in which the divine spark in all creation is respected and revered.

Bonnie Koppell
Bonnie Koppell
A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. ­

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

Shmuley Boteach
Shmuley Boteach
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

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

Life is like a mirror. The people you see reflect back to you the way you present yourself.

Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

I am here to protest against child molesters. For as surely as there are those who lure children with lollypops in order to rape their bodies, so, too, do these lure children with candy-coated lies in order to rape their minds.

Maurice Davis
Maurice Davis
To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

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.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.