Themes Quotes Flashcards
(30 cards)
YK quote about doing things to gain forgiveness
“Repentance, prayer and charity remove the evil decree.”
– Yom Kippur liturgy
quote about corporal punishment
“If the guilty person deserves to be beaten… the judge shall have them lie down and be flogged in his presence”
“he who spares the rod hates his son”
quotes about should have death penalty
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.”
quote about shouldn’t have a death pentaly
“A Jewish court that executes once in 70 years is called a bloodthirsty court.” - TALMUD
“it is not gods will that the wicked die, but that they turn from their ways” - TENAKH
confession on YK about social justice
“We have ignored justice, we have wronged the poor, we have been indifferent to the suffering of others.”
quote about why suffering
“God tests the righteous”
TENAKH
marriage quotes x2
“it is not good for man to be alone”
“and so a man leaves his mother and father and clings to his wife, so they become one flesh”
procreation quote
“be fruitful and multiply”
divorce quote
“what god has joined let no one separate”
BIBLE
“even god sheds a tear when anyone divorces his wife”
homosexuality quotes - x2
“do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman, it is an abhorrence”
“jewish law prohibits the practice of homosexualtity” - CHIEF RABBI COURT
quotes (x3) about family life
“honour your mother and father”
“teach it to your children” - shema
“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it”
why is everyone equal?
“in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them”
quote about stewardship/god’s ownership of the world
x3
“IBWPF that he made everything”
“the earth is the lords and all that it holds”
“see to it that you do not destroy my world”
anti-euthanasia quotes
“one who is dying is regarded as living in all matters” - TALMUD
“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” - MISHNAH
“the value of a human life is infinite” - former UK chief rabbi
Justiceeeee
“do justice and love goodness”
“let justice well up like water”
“justice justice you shall pursue”
quote about retribution
“life for life, eye for eye”
“you shall not take vengeance against one of your people”
general quotes about crime & punishment
x2
“hate evil, love good, maintain justice in the courts”
“do not seek revenge against one of your people”
correlation between experience of pesach and oppression?
“You shall not oppress a stranger… for you were strangers in the land of Egypt”
importance of giving charity
“If a person closes their eyes to avoid giving charity, it is as if they committed idolatry”
talmud
quote that could be used to argue the lower status of women?
“it is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper for him”
first sentence of torah…
“in the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth”
quote about dominion over animals
“dominate the land, rule over all the creatures”
pro-euthanasia quote
“there is a time to live and a time to die”
Ketuvim
how can the earth’ve been created in only 6 days?
“one day is but a thousand years to the holy one”
KETUVIM
