Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.