Top 10 Quotes by Samson Raphael Hirsch

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Smile, Kindness, Tired

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Littles, Judaism

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1962). “Horeb: A Philosophy of Jewish Laws and Observations”, London : Soncino Press

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Giving, Receiving, Chains

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Art, Men, Views

Samson Raphael Hirsch (1967). “Judaism eternal: selected essays from the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch”

To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Age, Pulse, Would Be

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Individual, Chords, Gods Will

Samson Raphael Hirsch, Daniel Haberman (2008). “חמשה חומשי תורה: מתורגם ומבואר מאת שמשון בן רפאל הירש ; תורגם לאנגלית ע"י דניאל הברמן”, p.125, Feldheim Publishers

Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Animal, People, Joy

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Important

Commentary on Genesis XXIV, 67. "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew text, English translation and commentary". Book edited by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 87, 1960.