Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.
Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.
To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.