Jewish Tradition Quotes

• The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Stars, Justice, Independence

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.90, Book Tree

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• The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laughing, Survival, Life Humor

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• I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Communication, Language

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Unique, Community, Enemy

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• I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Giving, Mind

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

  Elie Wiesel

  Learning, Immortality, Adam

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

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• There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Views, Creation

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

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• We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.

  Jay Michaelson

  Teaching, Gay, Community

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

  David Geffen

  Nature, Responsibility, Animal

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• En la tradición judía, la devoción a la erudición, que desafiaba a la muerte, era cosa de santos.

  Israel Shenker

  Stuff, Devotion, Defying

  Israel Shenker (1985). "Abrigo de muchos colores: Páginas de la vida judía", Doubleday Books

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• Sentí que hay una riqueza en la tradición judía, una gran herencia. Sería un idiota si no la aprovechara.

  Herman Wouk

  Inheritance, Wealth, Jerk

  Revista Time, 05 de septiembre de 1955.

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• I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Years, Justice

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• In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sinai, Said, Given

  Fuente: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Couple, Worry, People

  "Ruth Westheimer: Lo que he aprendido", por Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. 21 de diciembre de 2010.

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• Es cierto que la tradición judía hace hincapié en el mandato moral de salvar la vida. También tiene una postura diferente a la de la Iglesia Católica sobre el estatus moral del embrión. Tiene una visión más desarrollista de cuándo comienza la vida humana, en el sentido de persona, que la Iglesia Católica.

  Michael Sandel

  Views, Catholic, Church

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in the Muslim tradition, Thomas Aquinas in the Christian tradition, insisted that we couldn't even say that God existed because our concept of existence is far too limited and they would have been horrified by the ease with which we talk about God today.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Wise, Intelligent

  Entrevista con Austin Allen, bigthink.com. 16 de noviembre de 2009.

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• There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

  Richard Rogers

  Italian, Tradition, Jewish Family

  "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Ni la moral judía ni la tradición judía pueden utilizarse para desautorizar el terror como medio de guerra.

  Isaac Shamir

  War, Mean, Morality

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• Siguiendo la tradición rumana, se utiliza ajo en exceso para mantener alejados a los vampiros... Siguiendo la tradición judía, se mantiene en la mesa un dispensador de schmaltz (grasa líquida de pollo) para provocar acidez a los vampiros si superan la defensa contra el ajo.

  Calvin Trillin

  Giving, Vampire, Defense

  Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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• I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Night, Taught, Shaving

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• I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

  Michael Sandel

  Teaching, Childhood, Experts

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

  Strong, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Feelings

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