Elie Wiesel Quotes About Tradition
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I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.
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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
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For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
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The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
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In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
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I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.
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I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.
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The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.
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