quotes about Rabbi

last updated: November 28, 2023

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
-- Arthur Hertzberg

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The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.
-- Brennan Manning

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I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.
-- David Plotz

Source : "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.

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I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
-- Ephraim Mirvis

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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
-- Tony Campolo

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I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
-- Jake Epstein

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

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Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.
-- Solomon Schechter

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“I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.”
“Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.”
“The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.”
“In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.”
“Men control the world, but women control the men.”
“The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.”

Source : John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”
“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
“The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."”
“May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester, H. F. Baker (2012). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:”, p.419, Cambridge University Press
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Source : "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.