Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them. - Solomon Schechter - Quotesmemo.com

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I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

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Solomon Schechter

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

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In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man. . . [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. . . . Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.

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Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

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