Occupation: Rabbi Birth: December 7, 1847 Death: November 20, 1915
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything..
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]h….
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else..
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah..
Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them..
Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it..
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance..