Judaism quotes

quotes to use for Judaism, KEY: Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Talmud, Torah, Genesis, Exodus, other

Creation

• “the earth was formless and empty” - Genesis

• “and God saw that it was good” - Genesis

• “God said “let there be light” and there was light” - Genesis

• “God created mankind in his own image” - Genesis

Shekhinah

• “the spirit of God was hovering over the waters” - Genesis

• God as the burning bush to Moses - Exodus

• “in a pillar of cloud” - Exodus

Abraham Covenant

• “I will make you into a great nation” - Genesis

• “I will make your name great” - Genesis

• “all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” - Genesis

• “leave your country … and go to a land that I am going to show you” - Genesis

• “his treasures possession” - Deuteronomy

• “you are to undergo circumcision” - Genesis

Moses Covenant

• “you shall have no other Gods before me” - Exodus

• “remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy” - Exodus

• “honour your father and mother” - Exodus

• “you shall not murder” - Exodus

Mitzvot

• “write them on your doors” - Deuteronomy

• “tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads” - Deuteronomy

• “blessing if you obey” - Deuteronomy

• “curse if you disobey” - Deuteronomy

Key Moral Principles/Tikkun Olam

• “let justice roll on like a river” - Amos

• “set aside a 10th of all that your fields produce each year” - Deuteronomy

• “do not reap to the very edges of your field…leave them for the poor” - Leviticus

• “when a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them” - Leviticus

• “act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly” - Mikah

Messiah

• “I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah” - Thirteen Principles

• “he will not judge by what he sees.. but with righteousness he will judge the needy” - Isaiah

• “a King who will reign wisely” - Jeremiah

• “do what is just and right in the land” - Jeremiah

Food Laws

• Jews should not eat animals which have a split hoof but do not chew the cud - Leviticus

• “Do not eat anything you find already dead” - Deuteronomy

• “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk” - Deuteronomy

Nature of God

• “I believe with perfect faith that God is the Creator” - Thirteen Principles

• “The Lord is our Law-Giver” - Isaiah

• “My presence will go with you” - Exodus

• “There is no God but me” - Deuteronomy

Afterlife

• The righteous will be reunited with their loved ones after death, while the wicked will be excluded from this reunion - Deuteronomy 

• Olam Ha-Ba - spiritual afterlife/world to come

Pikuach Nefesh

• “the man who obeys them (laws) will live by them” - Leviticus

• “choose life so that you and your offspring shall life” - Deuteronomy

Synagogue

• “The lamps in the sanctuary must be kept burning from morning to evening” - Torah

• “There must be a curtain shielding the Ark” - Exodus

Worship

• “Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one” - Shema

• Recommends women and men being separated for worship - Talmud

• He says he prays morning, noon and evening - Psalms

• “Love the Lord your God with all your heart” - Shema

Shabbat

• Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy - 4th Commandment

• “God blessed the 7th day and made it holy” - Genesis

• “it will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever” - Exodus

Brit Milah

• “you must circumcise every baby boy when he is 8 days old” - Genesis

Marriage

• A man without a wife is incomplete - Talmud

• An unmarried woman is an unfinished vessel - Talmud

• “be fruitful and increase in number” - Genesis

• “they become one flesh” - Genesis

Funerals

• “Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days” - Torah

Rosh Hashanah

Genesis

Pesach

• “you must eat bread made without yeast” - Leviticus

Exodus

Yom Kippur

• “atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you of all your sins - Leviticus