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.

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.

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.