Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?