"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words"
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"I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it."
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"In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai."
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"A man can laugh while he suffers."
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"For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence."
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"Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within."
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"It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory."
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"I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross."
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"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."
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"We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)"
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"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."
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"Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me."
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"Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers."
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"That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt."
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"What I do, I want to do with all my being."
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"I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common."
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"I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year."
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"It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world."
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"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune."
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