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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
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I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.
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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.
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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.
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My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
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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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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
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Some events do take place but are not true others are, although they never occurred.
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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
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