Rabbi Loew Quotes & Sayings

I mean that certain fictions, chiefly Conan Doyle, Stevenson, but many others also, laid out a template that was more powerful than any local documentary account - the presences that they created, or "figures" if you prefer it, like Rabbi Loew's Golem, became too much and too fast to be contained within the conventional limits of that fiction. They got out into the stream of time, the ether; they escaped into the labyrinth. They achieved an independent existence.
The writers were mediums; they articulated, they gave a shape to some pattern of energy that was already present. They got in on the curve of time, so that by writing, by holding off the inhibiting reflex of the rational mind, they were able to propose a text that was prophetic. — Iain Sinclair

To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. — Placido Domingo

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution. — Kage Baker

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse De Lamartine

If I like a song, I'll just keep playing it, and it never gets old. — Bradley Cooper

Rabbi Loew of sixteenth-century Prague. He is supposed to have formed an artificial human being - a robot - out of clay, just as God had formed Adam out of clay. A clay object, however much it might resemble a human being, is "an unformed substance" (the Hebrew word for it is "golem"), since it lacks the attributes of life. Rabbi Loew, however, gave his golem the attributes of life by making use of the sacred name of God, and set the robot to work protecting the lives of Jews against their persecutors. — Isaac Asimov

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. — Jodie Foster

One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party, said Rabbi Loew. — Deborah Harkness

When we build on our strengths and daily successes - instead of focusing on failures - we simply learn more. — Tom Rath

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read. — Charlotte Bronte

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows-the only food that any possible universe ever can grow-then we must starve eternally. — C.S. Lewis

[N]obody minds having what is too good for them. — Jane Austen

Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand. — Steven Brust

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. — Anne Frank

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time. — Quentin Bryce

Nothing stays together without a fight. — Jon Foreman

Modernity has only lasted less than a dozen generations, while orthodox Christianity has already flourished for more than four hundred generations and shows no sign of fatigue. Yet orthodoxy seems like a newcomer in the university and to the cultural elites, since that is where it has been most forgotten. — Thomas C. Oden

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat
was, literally, talked into life. — Michael Chabon