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Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community. (David Novak Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity (David Novak Quotes)
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms (David Novak Quotes)
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church (David Novak Quotes)
The slogan ‘Never Again!’ that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone. (David Novak Quotes)
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone. (David Novak Quotes)
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter. (David Novak Quotes)
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home. (David Novak Quotes)
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. (David Novak Quotes)
To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body. (David Novak Quotes)
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. (David Novak Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God’s truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves ‘the chosen people.’ It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah (David Novak Quotes)
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences (David Novak Quotes)
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism. (David Novak Quotes)
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy. (David Novak Quotes)
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt. (David Novak Quotes)
The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world. (David Novak Quotes)
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land. (David Novak Quotes)
The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God. (David Novak Quotes)
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists. (David Novak Quotes)
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. (David Novak Quotes)
To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one’s sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people. (David Novak Quotes)
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. (David Novak Quotes)
The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. (David Novak Quotes)
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or ‘Old Testament,’ and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching. (David Novak Quotes)
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust (David Novak Quotes)
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel (David Novak Quotes)
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