Best 11 quotes of Rodger Kamenetz on MyQuotes

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

So," Art [Green] said, "it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to God, through attachment to tradition, attachment to forms.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.