Elie Wiesel Quotes About Isaac
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John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.
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I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
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Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.
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