Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.