To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.
Samson Raphael HirschIt's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
Samson Raphael HirschEvery breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
Samson Raphael HirschAbove all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life.
Samson Raphael Hirsch