Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.
In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
The Hebrew language. . . is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time. . . . It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.
When we give, we receive much more than what we have given.