Joseph H. Hertz Quotes

Joseph Herman Hertz was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the Holocaust. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. September 1872 – 14. January 1946
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“In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.”

Genesis III, 16 (p. 12)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.”

Genesis II, 17 (p. 8)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.”

Genesis II, 15 (p. 8)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.”

Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

Joseph H. Hertz Quotes

“Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.”

Additional notes to Exodus (p. 402)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.”

Genesis III, 21 (p. 12)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading”

Evening Service for Sabbaths (p. 381)
The Authorised Daily Prayer Book

“Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it — nothing superfluous, nothing lacking — a harmony.”

Genesis I, 31 (p. 5)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.”

Genesis I, 26 (p. 5)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.”

Genesis II, 18 (p. 9)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”

Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

“Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.”

Genesis II, 5 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

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