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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 64 quotes by David Novak David Novak (born 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha). He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and has also trained with Catholic moral theologians.[citation needed] Since 1997 he has taught religion and philosophy at the University of Toronto; his areas of interest are Jewish theology, ethics and biomedical ethics, political theory (with a special emphasis on natural law... Read full biography of David Novak → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. 0 Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots. 0 The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has... → 0 The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly... → 0 Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. 0 Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old... → 0 If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and... → 0 The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human... → 0 Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular... → 0 The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now. 0 Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone. 0 One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church. 0 In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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