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The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

~David Novak

Topics: Black Black Hole Directly Hole Holocaust Itself Look Swallowed Taken Up

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Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

~David Novak

Topics: Although Branches Cannot Live Roots Without

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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

~David Novak

Topics: Ethnic Identity Jews Know Like Most Personal Personal Identity Persons Rational Same

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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

~David Novak

Topics: Coercion Deception Deceptive Immoral Just Only Violent Whether Wrong

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God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

~David Novak

Topics: Body Both Chose Functions God Live More Sake Soul Than Us

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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 Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

~David Novak

Topics: About Back Brought Enough Gather Government Historical Israel Jerusalem Jewish Land Messiah Powerful Rebuild Reign Ruler Temple Torah

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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.

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Topics: Commandments Covenant Here Man Now Obeyed Obeying Respond Those Torah Work

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All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

~David Novak

Topics: Act Discussed Either Every Literature Practical Prescribed Questions Related Some Theoretical Think Thought

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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

~David Novak

Topics: Cardinal He Joseph Met Only Only Time Pope Time

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Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

~David Novak

Topics: Advocate Although Christian Churches Foreign Group Jewish Judaism Mission Most Seems Some Sort

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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