Norman Lamm Quotes

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study …. Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

Just the little bit that I've learned about Judaism, I didn't realize how, dare I say, intense that religion is as far as all of the things that you have to know and remember and the ritualism of it.

[Referring to Judaism:] ... a gutter religion.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert comics at the time, and I guess the two kind of got fused in my mind. I've always imagined God as an irrational, distractible boss. It's my best explanation for our planet.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

I love religion.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

My family is very religious.