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21 " There’s a rabbi in the Talmud who even says there’s no atonement for lashon hara. "
― Chaim Potok , The Promise
22 " Gossip, gossip, gossip. Rumors. Tongues. ‘Life and death are in the power of the tongue,’ ” he quoted in Hebrew. "
23 " There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings. "
24 " We will have many fights. But they will be for the sake of Torah. "
25 " I gambled that there was enough strength and depth in the tradition for me to be able to make it into more than Sunday-school Bible stories. I had no stomach for fundamentalism. I wanted American Judaism to become something an intelligent person would have to take seriously and be unable to laugh at and want to love. "
26 " When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble. "
27 " Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different. "
28 " When your world is destroyed and only a remnant is saved, then whatever is seen as a threat to that remnant becomes a hated enemy. "
29 " The Master of the Universe has so created the world that everything that can be good can also be evil. It is mankind that makes a thing good or evil, Reuven, depending upon how we use the wonders we have been given. "
30 " How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?''But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous weapon.''Everything is dangerous in the wrong hands. How do I convince him that we're not a threat? "