Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.