Best 23 quotes in «rabbi quotes» category

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

God did not create the world, He became the world. God became the world to realize himself, in material form, to realize an eternal and infinite aim. It is for the purpose of realizing His eternal and infinite aim that He became the world. Now notice this. God had to conceive the one primordial idea to become the world. Thus the idea preceded the world. This is supposed to be the relation between cause and effect. The cause is assumed to be prior to and independent of the the effect; while the effect is assumed to be posterior to and dependent upon the cause.

A child who goes to school and shares his or her lunch with the classmates, is a billion times greater and more religious than all the book-learned priests, imams, rabbis and pundits in the world combined.

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true] Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏

Some people want you to call them rabbi; some people want you to call them American; some people want you to admire their tats. We’ve all got our facades. At least the dean’s self-qualifier is based on merit. Can you say the same about your tattoos? Come on, he’s a sad man. Leave him alone.

Rabbi, the Sacred Teacher, Jesus Christ.

The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, “That is dirty!

Rabbi, the great Teacher, Jesus Christ.

‎"With each experience we grow and become more aware of the inner beauty that lies within us. Ultimately we are truly our own leader. We lead the connection and flow of life that is our inheritance.

The only thing operating on me was my God-given renewing body and his miraculous healing foods.

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place 2. zman = time 3. lamud = work

You said you have a soul, you deceived yourself; you said there was life after death, you deceived yourself; you followed the priest, you followed the imam, you followed the rabbi, you ran after the gurus, you always deceived yourself! You betrayed yourself and humanity for not understanding the truth! And what's left in your hand in the end? A fake happiness and perishment!

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

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

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

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

Some call it Marxism — I call it Judaism.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.