Jeffrey Cohen Quotes

February 19, 1940

Jeffrey Cohen (born 19 February 1940) is a leading British rabbi and author of books on Judaism.

G-d does not wish to occupy the role of Spiritual dictator, coercing us to accept His Torah. He would rather that we spend our life studying, plumbing the depths of, and becoming inspired by it, so that we may reach the stage when, with proper conviction and enthusiasm, we can affirm, "Whatever G-d says we will obey."

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Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.

Jeffrey Cohen
— Chapter I, p.1

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Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.

Jeffrey Cohen
— Chapter III, p.23

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Torah is an ever-expanding universe

Jeffrey Cohen
— Preface, p.ix

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The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism.

Jeffrey Cohen
— Preface, p.ix

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Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.

Jeffrey Cohen
— p.164 (500 Questions and Answers on Chanukah (Vallentine Mitchell, 2005, ISBN 0-85303-676-4))

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Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration.

Jeffrey Cohen
— Chapter IV, p.25

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