“The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.”
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
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Mordecai Richler6
Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist 1931–2001Related quotes
“The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
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”
Akiba ben Joseph (50–136) Tanna
Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim 30b
Maurice Davis (1921–1993) American rabbi
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 <br class="br">About
“I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
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”
Akiba ben Joseph (50–136) Tanna
Talmud Bavli,Shabbat https://www.sefaria.org.il/Shabbat.25b.6?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en|
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"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
