Joseph H. Hertz

"Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's s…"

"To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a m…"

"Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature."

"Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine — even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish."

"Men of all lands and climes are brothers."

"Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker."

"Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai."

"Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity."