Judaism

🇫🇷Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy

Existentialism

1906–1995

"If every pure character in the Old Testament announces the Messiah, if every unworthy person is his torturer and every woman his Mother, does not the Book of Books lose all life with this obsessive theme?"

Christian David Ginsburg

1831–1914

"The Kabbalah was first taught by God himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in Paradise."

🇮🇱Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Science

Neo-Kantianism

1903–1994

"Only a religion addressed to life's prose, a religion of the dull routine of daily activity, is worthy of the name."

Regina Jonas

Religion

1902–1944

"In spite of everything, in dealing with the theme at hand, one must, as is often repeated here, take both the changing times and the sensibilities of earlier times into account."

"Where conscience finds moral fault in purportedly divine imperatives, the imperatives need to be reexamined."

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

🇺🇸Irving Greenberg

Religion

b. 1933

"I don't care what denomination you belong to, as long as you're embarrassed by it."

🇮🇪George Moore (novelist)

Literature

1852–1933

"The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece."

Emanuel Tov

Education

b. 1941

"All arguments based on the unequal status of texts are questionable. In principle, all ancient readings have an equal status, without relation to the text or translation in which they are found."

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Philosophy

1707–1746

"Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found."