British Rabbi Quotes

Abraham Isaac Kook

Jonathan Sacks

Immanuel Jakobovits

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.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

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

Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless it registers the overall message each part of our prayers is meant to convey.

Immanuel Jakobovits

Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.

Indeed, Judaism as a way of life, seeks to inculcate in us a consciousness of the Divine Presence in the World and respect for life accordingly. The more we care for life, the closer we are in fact to God. Accordingly, an ethical vegetarian way of life expresses the most noble and sublime values and aspirations of Judaism itself, bringing us closer to its vision for society as a whole.

David Rosen (rabbi)