Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?"
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Rabbi
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text."
Elie Wiesel
Writer, Holocaust Survivor
"[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had."
Simone Elkeles
Author
"You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman"
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman"
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