Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

Men of all lands and climes are brothers.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.