God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.