Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten. "
Meir Soloveichik
Live
Forgotten
Age
Related Quotes:
" Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not. "
Meir Soloveichik
Son
Either
He
" If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light. "
Meir Soloveichik
Jews
See
Same
" Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Image
Love
" To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Church
Christian
" We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. "
Meir Soloveichik
Golden
Book
Flowers
" Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us. "
Meir Soloveichik
Loving
Love
Learn
" Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God. "
Meir Soloveichik
Hope
Wish
Forgive
" By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them. "
Meir Soloveichik
Bible
Young
Youth
" Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution. "
Meir Soloveichik
Sunday
Constitution
Heritage
" The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation. "
Meir Soloveichik
Death
Calendar
See
" I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. "
Meir Soloveichik
Serve
America
History
" Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. "
Meir Soloveichik
Continuity
Marriage
Love
" A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism. "
Meir Soloveichik
Society
Self-Interest
Totalitarianism
" Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. "
Meir Soloveichik
Gratitude
World
Thanksgiving
" In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. "
Meir Soloveichik
Power
America
Economic
" We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government. "
Meir Soloveichik
Freedom
Gift
God
" I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right. "
Meir Soloveichik
Always
Right
Lot
" When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty. "
Meir Soloveichik
Temple
History
Crisis
" Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Reflection
Love Is
" The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed. "
Meir Soloveichik
Hebrew
Man
Other
" To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God. "
Meir Soloveichik
God
Wine
Real
" Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God. "
Meir Soloveichik
Embodied
Will
God
" While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others. "
Meir Soloveichik
Believe
Wrong
Others
" 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
Forth
God
Jews
" Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful. "
Meir Soloveichik
Love
Always
Hate
" If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal. "
Meir Soloveichik
Love
Because
Human
" The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible. "
Meir Soloveichik
Moment
Debate
God
" Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding? "
Meir Soloveichik
Know
People
Forgiveness
" Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. "
Meir Soloveichik
Living
Bear
Children
" For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. "
Meir Soloveichik
Only
God
Jews