Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.