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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
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Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
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When I see a child who is hungry, I see a person who is humiliated.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.
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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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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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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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There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
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