Torah – Quotes

What is Scripture? The

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning. Elie Wiesel

Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don’t personally believe in the God it postulates … I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books … [The Bible is] the single most important … Read more

The Bible represents a

The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we … Read more

The Bible’s blind, the

The Bible’s blind, the Torah’s deaf, the Qur’an is mute; if you burned them all together you’d get close to the truth. Conor Oberst

Confucius is like the

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won’t break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon. Christopher Moore

The issue in the

The issue in the Bible is not just Do you believe in God or not? Everybody believed in gods of some sort. The question was, Who is truly the only living God? And if that God is indeed Yahweh the God of Israel, then there are consequences in real life – as shown in the … Read more

I wouldn’t even dare

I wouldn’t even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah. Charles Grodin

I will go wherever

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I … Read more

I have faith in

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth. Chaim Potok

I think when people

I think when people speak about faith, they always get stuck when they’re starting to speak about the terrible things that happen in the world, and I always know, even in the Torah, they’re always speaking about it, that if there is fifty percent of love, there is fifty percent of hate, they are always … Read more