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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
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The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
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I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.
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Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.
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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Writing should not be routine writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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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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The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
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The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only thanks to the young people. So, young people especially have a responsibility for Tibet.
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