Judaism Quotes

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

What seems new is only new to us.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

Messianic Judaism is not Christianity.

Jewish Learning Is Living!

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

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

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

If we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." - Dov Brezak

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master urgent.

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word coun

What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.