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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
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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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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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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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When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And the master of the good name said, “When you meet a person who poses as a master, ask him a question: whether he knows how to purify your thoughts. If he says that he knows, then he is a fake.
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Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
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I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for 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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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
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It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.
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Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
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