Rabbi Quotes

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman

I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.