After many years of thinking, reading and writing and looking, I came to believe that there are two basic, essential values which are indispensable for humane, decent, dignified life: one is freedom, and the other is security.

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

I did not and do not think of the solidity-liquidity conundrum as a dichotomy; I view those two conditions as a couple locked, inseparably, in a dialectical bond.

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

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

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

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