#judaism

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul! ↗

— Chaim Potok

#compassion #hasidic-judaism #intelligence #judaism #parenting

The difference between the masculine and feminine spiritual constitution is represented by their respective roles in reproduction. The man is the giver while the woman is the receiver. The man gives to the woman, but she, in turn, produces much more than the man initiated. She receives but ultimately ends up creating and developing something complete. If masculinity is giving, femininity is receiving, developing, and completing. ↗

— Chana Weisberg

#women-s-spiritual-roles #respect

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. ↗

— Anita Diament

#converted #husband #jim #judaism #just

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#eternal #exclusive #indispensable #judaism #religion

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#conspiracy #judaism #races

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#christians #indeed #judaism #our #rightly

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#judaism #me #point #point of view #tribal

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#attention #because #even #exhilarating #find

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#forebears #forever #get #i #judaism