Judaism Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Tommy Lapid

  Religious, Book, Together

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• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

  Gore Vidal

  Race, People, Islam

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

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• I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Proud, Raised

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• Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

  Solomon Schechter

  Abandonment, Torah

  Solomon Schechter (1908). “Inaugural Address of Solomon Schechter as President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Delivered November 20, 1902”

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• In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.

  Leo Baeck

  Action, Social, Social Action

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• Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spring, Buddhism, Talking

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Practice, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

  Kola Boof

  Jesus, Men, Islam

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Tolerance, Teach

  Source: www.salon.com

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• As I'm getting to know Judaism, my view of the whole world is changing.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Views, World, Whole

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

  Roseanne Barr

  Bully, Patriarchal Society, Notion

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.

  Roseanne Barr

  Philosophy, Military, Lasts

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells,

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• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  Bryan Kest

  War, Gay, Perfect

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• Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Religious, Mean

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mother, Religious, Mean

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• ...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.

  Ernest Jones

  Witty, Mean, People

  Ernest Jones (1990). “Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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• When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

  Dani Shapiro

  Yoga, Practice, Heritage

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• We learn by doing, not just by thinking. So I feel like beyond Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Judaism, or Christianity we need today to think about a global spirituality. We need to make it very personal and transformative for one self, and each other, together for those who are interested.

  Surya Das

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is false of Aristotelian logic, which is so much the basis of Christianity, and to some extent, Judaism in the west. Too rational, too logical, too masculine, chauvinistic, male dominated, head over heart, mind over body, heaven different than earth and so on, rather than yin/yang, inter-being, interwoven, inseparably.

  Surya Das

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.

  George Pattison

  Cfs, Justice, Liberty

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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

  Susan Jacoby

  Interesting, Aristocracy, Attractive

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Empires

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Grandmother, Important

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

  Norman Lamm

  Important, Study, Theme

  "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.

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• We are not an isolated insulated community anymore

  Jane Eisner

  Community, Isolated

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