Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

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