Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it.
Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.
Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso’s Cubist drawings were plans of the country’s defenses.
It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned.
It hurts a father to see a son this way. It makes no difference what age the son is; it hurts.
Is it better for man to live with uncertainty? Is the answer of Freud an answer? We should simply learn to accept our position as strange sick creatures? Is the answer of Nietzsche an answer? We shoul...
In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginat...
I grew up encrusted with lead and spectrumed with crayons. My dearest companions were Eberhard and Crayola. Washing for meals was a cosmic enterprise.
God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.
Gershon had never seen him so transformed, so possessed of open radiance, so easily moved by all around him, so hungry, so eager. The city was a woman, and he embraced it with all the tender and gentl...
Devorah told me, Our daughter is grown, and there were tears in her eyes.
I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.
… every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without p...
A blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing, But the man who lves that span, he is something… A man must fill his life with meaning, m...
You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.
We will have many fights. But they will be for the sake of Torah.
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it...
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can’t take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed, Lev. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go lo...
They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much.
There’s a rabbi in the Talmud who even says there’s no atonement for lashon hara.