Norman Lamm Quotes

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

My family is very religious.

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.

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

The [ancient] Jews fought one another over their conflicting interpretations of their Holy Book, and their disagreements about doctrine and matters of ritual

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

I love the Bible.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

My parents were Christian.

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.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

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.