Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.


Yair Lapid

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
YAIR LAPID
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a to...
YAIR LAPID
I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the s...
YAIR LAPID
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of peo...
YAIR LAPID
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regim...
YAIR LAPID
Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
YAIR LAPID
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2...
YAIR LAPID
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
YAIR LAPID
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contr...
YAIR LAPID
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were s...
YAIR LAPID
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition o...
YAIR LAPID
If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer ha...
YAIR LAPID
The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks i...
YAIR LAPID
Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be a...
YAIR LAPID
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of...
YAIR LAPID
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and tra...
YAIR LAPID
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the...
YAIR LAPID
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
YAIR LAPID
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our t...
YAIR LAPID
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outr...
YAIR LAPID
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its ...
YAIR LAPID
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to po...
YAIR LAPID
Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along th...
YAIR LAPID
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
YAIR LAPID
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
YAIR LAPID
I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., a...
YAIR LAPID
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an...
YAIR LAPID
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stag...
YAIR LAPID
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
YAIR LAPID
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents ...
YAIR LAPID
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read t...
YAIR LAPID
The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Pal...
YAIR LAPID
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid...
YAIR LAPID
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establi...
YAIR LAPID
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective...
YAIR LAPID
When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their...
YAIR LAPID
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
YAIR LAPID
Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
YAIR LAPID
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigo...
NOAH FELDMAN
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL
Our principal mission is to teach the Bible,
BARRY MCCARTY
Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, ...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK
We don't call it discussing Talmud; we call it arguing Talmud.
LIEBA SCHWARTZ
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to h...
ELIE WIESEL
We teach creation period. We're based on the Bible as God's revealed truth.
BRIAN RYHERD
Our defense was barely there. We didn't have any rotation.
BRACEY BARKER
Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Mode...
RABBI LOUIS FINKELSTEIN
The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, f...
UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.
THE TALMUD
The Talmud offered a virtual home for an uprooted culture, and grew out of the Jewish need to pack c...
JONATHAN ROSEN
Through the Bible, we're trying to help people clean their lives up. In helping people get off drugs...
PATRICK MURRAY
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given ...
SIMON SCHAMA
RIM barely scratches the surface. We don't need any of their customers.
BRIAN BOGOSIAN
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, rega...
HENRY MORRIS
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not ...
ADAM HAMILTON
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - ev...
STEPHEN RODRICK
It barely opened anywhere! They didn't put any money behind it at all.
JOEL SCHUMACHER
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
CHARLES M. DICKINSON
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmu...
SIMON SCHAMA
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get impriso...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
The only objection against the Bible is a bad life
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)
You only believe the part of the Bible you do.
RICK WARREN
The Bible has us believe the world will end at any moment.
JAMES DYE
But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
LEO STRAUSS
Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?
EDWARD TEACH
Only the devil and I know the whereabouts of my treasure, and the one of us who lives the longest sh...
EDWARD TEACH
Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.
EDWARD TEACH
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
EDGAR DEGAS
I barely have any clocks in my place, but I always have my cell phone with me,
BRIAN KING
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU
The Bible does not provide a map for life - only a compass
HADDON ROBINSON
I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to fol...
ADAM HAMILTON
We have to look at any and all sources of bringing teachers in. Teach For America has had a lot of s...
GERALD OKAMOTO
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great ...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great boo...
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle ...
RAJNEESH
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
ABRAHAM CAHAN
The most successful coaches on any level teach the fundamentals.
JOHN MCKAY
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
ISAAC NEWTON
In the American South, where I live, Christianity is very much about the Bible. Most Christians come...
BART D. EHRMAN
Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it corre...
HUGH ROSS
We just barely snuck in (to Nationals) because only the top 16 compete and we finished 16th.
JOSE LARIOS
Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Teach only love, for that is what you are.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY
I only debate my equals. All others, I teach.
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
I think that public schools should not be allowed to teach any religion. The question is not whether...
EMMA BONINO
I can teach my cat any trick he wants to do!
UNKNOWN
That's one of the things that they teach in the Bible, we're supposed to go over there and give char...
DAFENEE SPURLIN
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.
CECIL B. DEMILLE
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegbo...
D.A. CARSON
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard...
ELLEN G. WHITE
We do our best to do away with ceremonial Christianity and do just what the Bible says. We're Bible ...
JOHN BATES
I don't want to come to the end of my life, only to realize I've barely lived it.
APOLLO BUKOWSKI
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of a...
NORMAN LAMM
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a t...
WERNER HERZOG

More Yair Lapid

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
YAIR LAPID
The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a to...
YAIR LAPID
I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the s...
YAIR LAPID
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of peo...
YAIR LAPID
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regim...
YAIR LAPID
Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
YAIR LAPID
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2...
YAIR LAPID
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
YAIR LAPID
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contr...
YAIR LAPID
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were s...
YAIR LAPID
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition o...
YAIR LAPID
If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer ha...
YAIR LAPID
The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks i...
YAIR LAPID
Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be a...
YAIR LAPID
I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of...
YAIR LAPID
Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and tra...
YAIR LAPID
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the...
YAIR LAPID
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
YAIR LAPID
The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our t...
YAIR LAPID
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outr...
YAIR LAPID
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its ...
YAIR LAPID
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to po...
YAIR LAPID
Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along th...
YAIR LAPID
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
YAIR LAPID
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
YAIR LAPID
I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., a...
YAIR LAPID
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an...
YAIR LAPID
I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stag...
YAIR LAPID
The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
YAIR LAPID
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents ...
YAIR LAPID
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read t...
YAIR LAPID
The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Pal...
YAIR LAPID
The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid...
YAIR LAPID
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establi...
YAIR LAPID
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective...
YAIR LAPID
When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their...
YAIR LAPID
People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
YAIR LAPID
Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
YAIR LAPID
Although not immediately, the joint venture will help us to become a meaningful player in the market...
YAIR SAKOV
Over the past 18 months, we have taken significant steps to position ourselves in the US, Africa, Eu...
YAIR SAKOV
I think people will look back at this period as the Golden Age of animation. There used to be one st...
YAIR LANDAU
He looks fine, feels fine, he wants to go home.
YAIR BARENBOIM
will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb.
YOSEF LAPID
Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our...
YOSEF LAPID
Mr. Prime minister, take advantage of this opportunity, because your government is unworthy to conti...
YOSEF LAPID
The hunt for Nazis is no longer relevant. There are no important Nazis alive any more, essentially. ...
YOSEF LAPID
saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the...
YOSEF LAPID
A part of my life is over and completed. A part of which I am proud.
JOSEPH LAPID
He was one of a kind. I don't know any other man like him.
JOSEPH LAPID
He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can,
JOSEPH LAPID
He promises to do as much damage and harm to Israel as he can, ... He in this sense is a very, very ...
JOSEPH LAPID
But you must know that we are a country threatened to be annihilated by our enemies. We are the only...
JOSEPH LAPID
We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be t...
JOSEPH LAPID
We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the...
YOSEF LAPID