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Rabbi Raditz of Poland was a very short rabbi with a long beard, who was said to have inspired many pogroms with his sense of humor. One of his disciples asked, "Who did God like better, Moses or Abraham ?" "Abraham," the Zaddik said. "But Moses led the Israelites to the Promised Land," said the disciple. "All right, so Moses," the Zaddik answered.
woody allen— "Hassidic Tales, with A Guide to Their Interpretation by the Noted Scholar"
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
augusto pinochet— Interview (1989) quoted in ""Ego sum Pinochet" 1989, Inteview to Augusto Pinochet, authors Raquel Correa and Elizabeth Subercaseaux."
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?
— Thomas Henry Huxley, in The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings, Macmillan, 1967, p.134.
The true God may be personated. As He was, first, by Moses, who governed the Israelites, that were not his, but God’s people, not in his own name, with hoc dicit Mose s, but in God’s name, with hoc dicit Dominus .
— Thomas Hobbes, in Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, Ch. XVI : Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated
