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Isaac Leib Peretz quotes - page 2
The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains-eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.
Isaac Leib Peretz
You are the weakest and the least, and the last to be redeemed.... You will be freed, when man will rise above the earthly, when human worms will turn into human eagles.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Jews are likened to sand: tiny grains, dry and scattered, each separate from the other.
Isaac Leib Peretz
According to the generation is the music thereof.
Isaac Leib Peretz
[Christianity] is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Not all Hasidim are hasidim.
Isaac Leib Peretz
He who provides life provides also a living.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.
Isaac Leib Peretz
With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works.
Isaac Leib Peretz
I am a rainworm, buried deep Among the oozing, slimy things, Yet of an eagle's nest I dream, And eagle's wings.
Isaac Leib Peretz
The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.
Isaac Leib Peretz
We are like fish In this vast sea. And Satan fishes For you and me.
Isaac Leib Peretz
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
Isaac Leib Peretz
"For the commandment is a lamp" [Prov. 6.23]. And the spark which kindles the commandment is devotion.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Man has been likened to an earthen pot.... You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not-man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.
Isaac Leib Peretz
One God, one Law, one people, and one land.
Isaac Leib Peretz
"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"... Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?
Isaac Leib Peretz
Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Rather a stone, but to be alone!
Isaac Leib Peretz
Little houses in a row, Down a quiet lane; Neither doors nor windows know, Peace and darkness reign. Though you cannot pay the rent, You will dwell there with the best. Where the weary, broken, spent, Find eternal rest!
Isaac Leib Peretz
The song that from the heart would spring Is dead for want of echoing.
Isaac Leib Peretz
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