Jewish Quotations

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life. " ~~ Lauren Bacall

"I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting peace." ~~ Ezekiel (Yechezkel) 37:26

"Vinegar is good for you in dry heat." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat

"The worst of mankind is he whose power of speech exceeds his power of thought. " ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra

"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and cleaves to his wife: and they become one flesh. " ~~ Genesis (Bereshit) 2:24

"Music is prayer. " ~~ Ludwig Boerne

"Who denies idolatry is as one that avows the Torah entire." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin

"Confession by the defendant is as good as a hundred witnesses." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin

"Ingathering of Exiles is as important as the day when heaven and earth were created." ~~ Talmud, Pesachim

"Too honor an old man one should not sit in his place or contradict his words." ~~ Rashi

"Just as the world cannot exist without water, so it cannot be without wisdom." ~~ David Qimchi

"It is not the sin that drives one crazy it’s the desire to sin." ~~ Shalom Aleichem