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Interesting quotes from famous Jews

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
-David Steinberg

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays.
-Henny Youngman

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
-Mel Brooks

The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish.
-Jules Farber

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be a goy even if you are Jewish.
-Lenny Bruce

The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
-Calvin Trillin

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
-Golda Meir

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
-Peter Malkin

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-Benjamin Disraeli

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
-Sam Levenson

Don't be humble; you are not that great.
-Golda Meir

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
-Joe E. Lewis

A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
-Sam Goldwyn

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-Groucho Marx

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
-Oscar Levant

Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.
-George Burns

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
-Milton Berle

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
-Sam Goldwyn

Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
-Ernie Kovacs

When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault.
-Henry Kissinger

"DAILY JEWISH WISDOM" is found @ Beliefnet.com

JEWISH WISDOM:

Fear builds walls to bar the light.  - Baal Shem Tov

 

Engage in Torah and charity even with an ulterior motive, for that habit of right doing will lead also to right motivation.  - Talmud: Pesahim, 50b

The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and because of justice perverted.- Ethics of the Fathers 5:8

Ever since Rabbi Akiba used the Passover seder to plan a revolutionary struggle against the Roman occupiers, the Jews have used the seder to begin concrete work on tikkun (healing and transformation).

- Rabbi Michael Lerner, the Tikkun Magazine Passover supplement 2006

To work out ends of righteousness and love are you called; not merely to enjoy or suffer.

- S.R. Hirsch, "Nineteen Letters," 1836

“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”  Golda Meir

The worship of God, though desirable as an end itself, can somehow never be in the right spirit, unless it impels one to the service of man.  - Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan

Concentrate on three things and you will not fall into the grip of sin. Know from where you came, where you are going, and before Whom you will have to give account and reckoning.- Pirkei Avot 3:1

We cannot learn from general principles: there may be exceptions.  - Johanan, Talmud: Kiddushin

A truly generous man is he that always gives, whether it be much or little, before he is asked.- Orchot Tsadiqim

The best security for old age: respect your children.- Sholem Asch

 A Jew can be Jewish with God, against God, but not without God.- Elie Wiesel

He who promotes his own honor at the expense of his neighbor's has no portion in the world to come.- Judah b. Hanina, Genesis Rabbah

Even if all the world tells you, "You are righteous," consider yourself a sinner.  - Rabbi Simlai

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "On Prayer"

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.- Maimonides, "Tzavaah"

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1811), "Likutey Moharan"

Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the faults we see in them.- Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

A man should never impose an overpowering fear upon his household.  - Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 6b

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.- The Talmud

Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love....Peace unaccompanied by reproof is not peace.- Genesis Rabbah 54:3

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Shabbat Sukkot [intermediate day]

Shavuah Tov!     Listening


   We at Beit Torah (www.onetorah.org) have an open Sukkah policy with snacks, lulav, and etrog available in our Sukkah all week long. First though we need to repent, atone, listen, and build even through Hoshanah Rabah when we best the willow until all leaves fall symbolizing the casting away of the last of our sins:


 Exodus 33:12-34:26 Numbers 29:17-31 ;  Yechezkel 38:18 - 38:23 ; 39:1 - 39:16
~Maftir: BaMidbar 29:17 - 29:31~


Sukkot A.Z.: Bees, Pollens, Breeze


Ah! The fresh air, cicadas’ sounds


as we shake lulav all around.


Noon time snoozing - A pollen sneeze!


Can you embrace that quite stiff breeze?


Still hanging walls flap quietly


while cool wind gusts discourage bees...


Love the chicken, squash and peas


with wind chimes, bright stars, shadow trees...


Challah, candles, read Torah too -


A week of Nature for me and you!


Wheeze...


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Haftarah Shabbat Chol HaMoed of Sukkot
Yechezkel 38:18 - 38:23 ; 39:1 - 39:16
~Maftir: BaMidbar 29:17 - 29:31~

8:2 18 Vehayah bayom hahu beyom bo Gog al-admat Yisrael ne'um HASHEM Elokei ta'aleh chamati be'api.
And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Yisrael," says HASHEM G-d, "that My fury will show in My face.
19 Uvekin'ati ve'esh-evrati dibarti im-lo bayom hahu yiheyeh ra'ash gadol al admat Yisrael.
For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: 'Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Yisrael,
20 Vera'ashu mipanai degei hayam ve'of hashamayim vechayat hasadeh vechol-haremes haromes al-ha'adamah vechol ha'adam asher al-penei ha'adamah venehersu heharim venaflu hamadregot vechol-chomah la'aretz tipol.
so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'
21 Vekarati alav lechol-haray ne'um HASHEM Elokei cherev ish be'achiv tiheyeh.
I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains," says HASHEM G-d. "Every man's sword will be against his brother.
22 Venishpateti ito bedever uvedam vegeshem shotef ve'avnei elgavish esh vegafrit amtir alav ve'al-agapav ve'al-amim rabim asher ito.
And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 Vehitgadilti vehitkadishti venodati le'eynei goyim rabim veyad'u ki-ani HASHEM.
Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am HASHEM.''
39:1 Ve'atah ven-adam hinave al-Gog ve'amarta koh amar HASHEM Elokei hineni eleicha Gog nesi rosh Meshech veTuval.
"And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, 'Thus says HASHEM G-d: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tuval;
2 Veshovaveticha veshisheticha veha'aliticha miyarketei tzafon vahavi'oticha al-harei Yisrael.
and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Yisrael.
3 Vehikeyti kashtecha miyad smolecha vechitzeycha miyad yeminecha apil.
Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4 Al-harei Yisrael tipol atah vechol-agapeicha ve'amim asher itach le'eit tzipor kol-kanaf vechayat hasadeh netaticha le'ochlah.
You shall fall upon the mountains of Yisrael, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Al-penei hasadeh tipol ki ani dibarti ne'um HASHEM Elokim.
You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken," says HASHEM G-d.
6 Veshilachti-esh beMagog uveyoshvei ha'iyim lavetach veyad'u ki-ani HASHEM.
And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am HASHEM.
7 Ve'et-shem kodshi odia betoch ami Yisrael velo-achel et-shem-kodshi od veyad'u hagoyim ki-ani HASHEM kadosh beYisrael.
So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Yisrael, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am HASHEM, the Holy One in Yisrael.
8 Hineh va'ah veniheyatah ne'um HASHEM Elokim hu hayom asher dibarti.
Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says HASHEM G-d. "This is the day of which I have spoken.
9 Veyatz'u yoshvei arei Yisrael uvi'aru vehisiku beneshek umagen vetsinah bekeshet uvechitzim uvemakel yad uveromach uvi'aru vahem esh sheva shanim.
Then those who dwell in the cities of Yisrael will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for
seven years.
10 Velo-yis'u etzim min-hasadeh velo yachtevu min-haye'arim ki vaneshek yeva'aru-esh veshalelu et-sholeleihem uvozezu et-bozezeyhem ne'um HASHEM Elokim
They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them," says HASHEM G-d.
11 Vehayah vayom hahu eten le-Gog mekom-sham kever beYisrael gey ha'ovrim kidmat hayam vechosemet hi et-ha'ovrim vekavru sham et-Gog ve'et-kol-hamonoh vekar'u gey hamon Gog.
It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Yisra'el, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.
12 Ukevarum beit Yisrael lema'an taher et-ha'aretz shiv'ah chodashim.
For seven months the house of Yisrael will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
13 Vekaveru kol-am ha'aretz vehayah lahem leshem yom hikavedi ne'um HASHEM Elokim.
Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified," says HASHEM G-d.
14 Ve'anshey tamid yavdilu ovrim ba'aretz mekaberim et-ha'ovrim et-hanotarim al-penei ha'aretz letaharah miketzeh shiv'ah-chodashim yachkoru.
They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.
15 Ve'avru ha'ovrim ba'aretz vera'ah etzem adam uvanah etzlo Tziyon ad kavru oto hamekaberim el-gei hamon Gog.
The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man's bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
16 Vegam shem-ir hamonah vetiharu ha'aretz.
The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land."'

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