Twenty-five portraits of figures from the Jewish tradition explore the mysteries of Jewish existence and themes of humility, silence, loyalty, and truth, and feature Esther, Noah, Daniel, Ruth, and others.
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Jews want to remain Jews even if it means to be persecuted.
198. oldal - The Talmud: Rabbi Hanina ben Dossa
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
True, Hillel is a better educator, and his views seem more ecumenical, but Shammai's anger is surely more genuine, more honest. What he says is logical and valid: one ought not divide Judaism into segments. Whoever does not accept Jewish history in its entirety is not Jewish; whoever wishes to identify only with one period, one tradition, one burden, or one privilege cannot be Jewish. To accept Judaism means to accept oneself within the totality of Judaism: each of us is but the conclusion of a story whose beginnings are in God's memory. And whoever is unwilling to accept all of it stays outside.
170-171. oldal - Talmud: The House of Shammai and the House of Hillel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
For to be Jewish means to have earned the right to punish our enemies – who inevitably turn out to be the enemies of mankind – and to choose not to.
150. oldal - The Bible: Esther
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
Mystery must remain secret in order for it to affect man's destiny.
111. oldal - The Bible: Daniel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
It is forbidden to trivialize certain subjects; it is dangerous to treat them lightly.
111. oldal - The Bible: Daniel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
In wars it is always the children who lose. Grown-ups fight with each other and it is the children who die.
99. oldal - The Bible: Daniel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
But we all learn from the Midrash the essential lesson of human and social responsibility. True, we are often too weak to stop the injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons of the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's right to live.
49. oldal - The Bible: Jephtah and His Daughter
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
Having seen man without his mask, having penetrated the darkest zones of his being, we only know that some questions are doomed to remain unanswered. None of my contemporaries knows why he is alive – or rather, why he has survived, why he and not someone else. For us every moment is a moment of grace and wonder – we and we alone can give it a meaning.
174. oldal - Talmud: The House of Shammai and the House of Hillel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
For once upon a time some of us did indeed see a deserted land covered with dry bones.
And yes, we could testify to man's ability to transform memories of tragedy into necessary hope.
82. oldal - Ezekiel
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
Thus, to slander anyone was a grave sin not only for the slandered but also for him or her who heard the slander.
206. oldal - The Talmud: Rabbi Eleazar ben Azaryah
Elie Wiesel: Sages and Dreamers Portraits and Legends from the Jewish Tradition
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