What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.

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.

Questions outlive the answers.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.