Cool Quotes for Kislev

Compiled by Brielle Goodman
Johns Hopkins University
KOACH on Campus Editor

The seismograph has taught us that a tremor in any part of the world can be felt by a sufficiently sensitive instrument everywhere else in the world. The same is true of a person's deeds. One should not think that his actions do not affect others. Everything one does in some way affects everyone else in the world.

Rabbi Yerucham of Mir as quoted in Smiling Each Day
by Rabbi Avraham Twerski.

All Israel is responsible one for the other.

Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 27b

It is better to have less if it is with peace of mind than to have abundant wealth but with a tormented spirit.

Kohelet (Ecclesiastes)

A man is what he is, not what he used to be.

Yiddish proverb

We cannot achieve self-respect if we are afraid of self-knowledge.

M.R. Cohen, A Dreamer's Journey

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man is Not Alone

The aim of man is to be the Temple of God.

Jacob Joseph Katz, Toldot Jacob Joseph

The spiritual perfection of man consists in his becoming an intelligent being--one who knows all that he is capable of learning.

Maimonides

[Posted 12/28/03]