Quotes by Israel Shenker

Israel Shenker

A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

Husband

Party

Religious

A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel’s report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.

Angel

Men

Mercy

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

America

Morning

Past

At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship’s hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

House

Spiders

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: “Yes, the Bible says “Be fruitful and multiply,” but that was when the population was two per square world.

Catholic

Squares

Two

Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

Hero

Passionate

Self

Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God’s commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

Accepting God

Humble

Humility

God’s greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It’s a problem, not a disadvantage.

Blessing

Children

Support

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

Devotion

Jewish Tradition

Stuff

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

Bible

Fate

Men

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Devotion

Fate

God

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House

Humble

Humility

Husband

Imagination

Jewish Tradition

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Mercy

Morning

Oasis

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Party

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Quality

Reality

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Rope

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Quotes by Israel Shenker

Israel Shenker

A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel’s report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.

America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship’s hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered for a moment, then came as a visitor, and finally became master of the house.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: “Yes, the Bible says “Be fruitful and multiply,” but that was when the population was two per square world.

Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God’s commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.

God’s greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It’s a problem, not a disadvantage.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

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