Talk:Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Add topicIt's frustrating that the only links wikiquote will accept as native to the site are from wikiquote itself rather than from any other wikimedia site like wikipedia. Does anyone know any workarounds?
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[edit]- Religious nationalism is to religion what national socialism is to socialism.
""The rites at this Western Wall are revolting. This lighting of candles, the notes...It is a farce that they go up there and blow shofars. The greatest dramatist of all, Shakespeare, understood the trick. In the most horrifying and dramatic moments of his works - in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, the buffoon appears. Apparently in the most dramatic moment in the history of the Jewish people, the buffoon must also enter, blowing the shofar and making these tasteless and demeaning gestures." - Interview with Ha'aretz 1968
- Folkloristic religion makes God the functionary of human society, performing for it the tasks of Minister of Health, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Police, Minister of Welfare, and Minister of the Economy.
- There are no ways to faith, since faith is the supreme, if not the only, manifestation of man’s free choice
- There is no distinction between ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Leviticus 19:18) and ‘You shall surely erase the memory of Amaleq’ (Deuteronomy 25:19). As for ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ its characterization as the ethic of Judaism is none other than a heretical falsification of the Torah.
- Ethics, when regarded as unconditionally asserting its own validity, is an atheistic category par excellence
- The Torah does not recognize moral imperatives stemming from knowledge of natural reality or from awareness of man’s duty to his fellow man. All it recognizes are Mitzvoth, divine imperatives