The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.
Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.
The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
After all, God is God because he remembers.
I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.
I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?
"Not to remember is not an option."
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