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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. -- Arthur Hertzberg
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. -- Abraham Cahan
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. -- Norman Lamm
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. -- Julius Streicher
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. -- Noah Feldman
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. -- Elie Wiesel
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. -- Francis Bacon
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor. -- Peter Eisenman
Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud. -- Meir Soloveichik
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. -- Elie Wiesel
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. -- Abraham Cahan
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on. -- David Steinberg
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. -- Norman Lamm
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. -- Michel Onfray
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication. -- David Novak
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. -- Simon Schama
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. -- Simon Schama
The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith... -- Herman Wouk
In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai. -- Elie Wiesel
I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use. -- Frank Moore Cross
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting." -- Abraham Cahan
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed... -- Zygmunt Bauman
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud -- Sapphire
The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." -- Frederic Farrar
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. -- Elie Wiesel
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath. -- John Thorn
I never turn down a drink. Among friends it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too. -- Sholom Aleichem
For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning. -- Erica Brown
These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ÂÂteenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls. -- David Duke
CODE:Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17)DECODED:Blessed is He that discerneth secrets.Talmud (Berakoth 58a) -- H.W. Charles
The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish religion now takes its stand on the Talmud rather than on the Bible. -- Nesta Helen Webster
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law. -- Herman Wouk
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament. -- Jonathan Rosen
In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves. -- Elie Wiesel
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw. -- Moses Hess

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