God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.