“The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.”
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
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“The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.”
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Ibid.
"The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle"
“Love your fellow as yourself'- Rabbi Akiva says: This is the great principal of the Torah”
Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim 30b
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PARTICIPANTS – INFORMATION MEETING ON THE CULT PHENOMENON IN THE UNITED STATES http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cult_Phenomenon_in_the_United_States_%281979%29/Biographical_Sketches, February 5, 1979, 318 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. [Between pages 18-19 of Transcript of Proceedings]. The Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979), Joint-Congressional Proceedings, Chaired by Senator Bob Dole
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“I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.”
On his deathbed.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying
“Who is wealthy?… Rabbi Akiva says: Anyone who has a wife whose actions are pleasant”
Talmud Bavli,Shabbat https://www.sefaria.org.il/Shabbat.25b.6?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en|
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.</p
