Elie Wiesel Quotes

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

Moses is our true founding father.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Let my people go!

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please."

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Since the Exodus, Freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.