You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.