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In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
Norman Lamm
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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.
Naomi Levy
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Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.
Jeffrey Cohen
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Say little and do much. Receive all men with a cheerful countenance.
Shammai
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In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.
Joseph Albo
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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.
Lawrence Kushner
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We don't like children much. We tend to fear our young.
Julia Neuberger
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Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.
Daniel Lapin
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Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
Solomon Schechter
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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.
Sidney Greenberg
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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.
Zelig Pliskin
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Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.
Leo Baeck
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The highest sacrifice is a broken and contrite heart; the highest wisdom is that which is found in the Torah; the noblest of all ornaments is modesty; and the most beautiful thing that man can do, is to forgive a wrong.
Eleazar of Worms
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The principal safeguard is seclusion, that you should not, God forbid, leave the house, save for some exceedingly great need.... And even in the synagogue you should be very short and leave quickly. It is better to pray at home, for in the synagogue it is impossible to be saved from envy, and from hearing vain talk and gossip, and one is punished for this.
Vilna Gaon
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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.
Michael Lerner (rabbi)
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Erring, I wandered in the wilderness,
In passion's grave nigh sinking, powerless;
Now deeply I repent, in sore distress,
That I kept not the statutes of the King!
Ramban
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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
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You should know, O man, that the greatest enemy you have in the world is your inclination.
Bahya ibn Paquda
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In the coming world they will not ask me—Why were you not Moses? They will ask me—Why were you not Zusya?
Zusha of Hanipol
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A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true.
Jacob Neusner
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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)
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A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.
Hillel the Younger
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Edwin Friedman
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What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.
Hillel the Elder
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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.
David Wolpe
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