The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not approaching it from the scientific point of view. I'm saying: Why do we need that? It's a sordid story, a depressing story, a dark story. Why should I believe that I'm a descendant of either Cain or Abel? Thank God there is a third son! [Genesis 4:25]

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.