did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.