Islam's searing archaeological crime against Judaism's holiest site and Rabbi Nechemia Lavi 41

More Pain for Others

Rabbi Mendel of Vorki required surgery on his finger. Although no anesthetics were available, Rabbi Mendel calmly sat through the operation without a sound.

After the operation, the doctor remarked how astounded he was for someone to be so calm. "He reacted as if it were not his finger. He felt no pain whatsoever."

Rabbi Mendel observed: "He doesn't understand. When a person comes and tells me his financial difficulties, even if he does not always act as properly as he should, I feel much more pain and suffering than when they operated on my finger."

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The funeral was on Sunday for
Rabbi Nechemia Lavi, age 41, murdered in the Old City on Saturday night.

 I was able to get into the funeral and sat right behind President Rivlin. The speakers stood against the chairs instead of to them, but I got these pictures from my front row seat:





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A Searing Muslim Crime of Epic Proportions

The Temple Mount Sifting Project, now in its 10th year, has uncovered hundreds of thousands of invaluable antiquities from tons of ancient debris discarded by Palestinian Muslims like trash from Judaism's holiest site.

Barkay looks over priceless pieces of debris believed to date back to the First Temple period. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

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In 1999, thousands of years' worth of fragile and irreplaceable Jewish archaeological antiquities were surreptitiously and violently dug up by Arab bulldozers at Judaism's holiest site, Jerusalem's Temple Mount, to build an entrance to a subterranean mosque.

The resulting thousands of tons of invaluable debris – believed to contain over 1 million artifacts dating back to the First Temple period – were then carted off in dump trunks and discarded like garbage to a nearby landfill in Jerusalem's Kidron Valley.

According to internationally recognized archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, PhD, who is the co-director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, located near Mount Scopus, the removal represents perhaps the greatest archaeological crime in history.

"Approximately 400 truckloads saturated with the history of Jerusalem were illicitly removed – barbarically removed – from the Temple Mount by the Islamic Wakf in November 1999 to promote a political agenda," says Barkay at the sifting projects headquarters earlier this month.

The professor emeritus from the Hebrew University and recipient of the 1996 Jerusalem Prize for Archaeological Research says the debris was taken from the southeastern section of the contested holy site without the knowledge of authorities, including the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

"All of that was dug up with bulldozers in a place where even a toothbrush is too large a tool to carry out excavations," he says.

"The Temple Mount is the most delicate and the most important archaeological site in this country, and it was never ever excavated because of politics."

As a result, Barkay says, the historic plateau where the First and Second Temples once stood has become a "black hole in the history of Jerusalem."

"Jerusalem may be the most excavated place on earth, but the most important place in Jerusalem is totally unknown," he says. "It's terra incognita; a piece of unknown land."

Although Israel technically regained sovereignty over the Temple Mount after reunifying Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, the government's concession to allow the Jordanian government to oversee the coveted holy site has resulted in what Barclay terms a "catastrophe."

"This is part of a cultural war that has been launched against every civilization that is non- Muslim… that continues now in Iraq and Syria with ISIS," he says.

Although the IAA is supposed to have oversight of all excavations in Israel, Barkay laments that the Temple Mount – which is home to Al-Aksa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site – is considered "extraterritorial."

"Though the Temple Mount is part of the capital, it is the only place in the State of Israel in which the authorities are not working normally," he explains. "The antiquities authority does not have full jurisdiction on the Temple Mount, and therefore cannot fulfill its legal task."

Consequently, illegal Arab construction is routinely carried out there without any coordination with the IAA, Israeli government, or Jerusalem Municipality, resulting in grievous and irreversible damage to the compound's bounty of unrivaled buried artifacts.

Asked the degree of loss to Jewish history due to the ongoing destruction, Barkay estimates that it is incalculable.

"The Temple Mount is the place that is the soul, heart and spirit of the Jewish people," he reflects. "It is the only holy place for Jews – all synagogues around the world are directed toward the Temple Mount. This is the place where creation began…. and the rest of the world was created around it, according to Jewish tradition."

Barkay points out that Arab denial of Jewish history at Judaism's holiest site has only exacerbated the Temple Mount's already contentious geopolitical underpinnings.

IN 2004, Barkay and co-director Zachi Dvira created the Temple Mount Sifting Project – under the auspices of Bar-Ilan University – in an effort to reclaim, analyze and document the discarded history.

The two archaeologists procured a government license to have the debris transferred to Emek Tzurim National Park, located on the western slopes of Mount Scopus, where the project is headquartered.

"Part of it got lost," Barkay says of the enormous transfer, which required hundreds of truckloads. "Part of it got mixed up with modern urban garbage, and some of the material is lost forever."

The sifting, Barkay discloses, is operated with aid from the NGO Ir David (City of David) Foundation and cooperation from the Israel National Parks Authority, while research and publication of the findings is funded by private donors through the Israel Archaeology Foundation.

"Using the wet-sifting technique, most of the finds can be identified and dated by matching them to parallel finds found in a clear context elsewhere," he says. Unique methodological techniques have been developed in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, "which is somewhere between a survey and an excavation," in order to study the finds.

A full-time staff of 20 – aided by thousands of volunteers who have come from around the country, and the globe, over the last 10 years to spend a day, or a few hours to help sift through the massive collection using dozens of hoses connected to sinks – uses advanced quantitative analytical techniques to reveal the unique patterns of the findings.

Barkay relates that many of the tens of thousands of buckets of earth that have been sifted contain fragments of pottery, glass vessels, metal objects, bones and mosaic tesserae stones, dating primarily from the First Temple period (10th century BCE ) to the present day.

Findings have also included stone vessels, approximately 5,000 ancient coins, various pieces of jewelry, a rich assortment of beads, terracotta figurines, and even clothing, he recounts. The antiquities are sorted and studied at the project's archaeological laboratory downtown, where the processing and analysis of findings are completed and compiled in a large computer database.

"We have a representation of 15,000 years of history here," he says. "From prehistoric flint implements, up to finds of the modern time."

However, only slightly more than 50 percent of the reclaimed earth has been sifted, and a massive shortfall in the project's funding now seriously endangers the possibility of continuing the work. In an effort to ensure that the project continues, Barkay and Dvira launched a crowdfunding campaign earlier this month.

"We depend on private donations, so we initiated this crowdfunding campaign, which can be found on our website half-shekel.org." He adds that the sifting project needs more than $1 million to continue operations.

Moreover, despite a growing Arab campaign to rewrite Jewish history at the contested holy site , Barkay says the project's survival is in a race against time.

"As the research has advanced, the time necessary, and the number of tasks to be completed, have significantly increased," he said. "I am in my 70s now and we have another 15 years to go here."

In the meantime, despite a growing Arab campaign to rewrite Jewish history at the contested holy site, Barkay notes the sifting project has been instrumental in irrefutably proving the inexorable link between Jews and the Temple Mount.

"Even now we have new information that may well change the written history of some of the periods of the Temple Mount," he says.

"The sifting project has proven itself to be an inexhaustible source of knowledge for the research and study of the archaeology and history of the Temple Mount, and the project is continuing full steam with many more finds waiting to be discovered by professionals and visitors who come to work at the site."

Indeed, Barkay says the tens of thousands of volunteers have become as invaluable to the project as the historic relics they sift through.

"There is nothing more touching than to look at the excitement of the face of somebody when he or she touches the soul -- the sacred soil -- of Jerusalem and of the Temple Mount," he says. "And to look at the face of a child who finds an object which is 2,000 years old... to see the spiritual uplifting, and to see the shining face of that person, is something which is not possible to experience anywhere else but here."

And that, he says, "is the most important thing for me here.

'Government That Opened Road to Arabs Murdered the Couple'

Nationalist leader in Hevron holds government responsible for murder for opening road to Arabs in March, leading to last night's attack.

By Ari Yashar

First Publish: 10/2/2015, 10:22 AM

Baruch Marzel

Hadas Parush/Flash 90

Leading nationalist activist Baruch Marzel of Hevron on Friday morning responded to the murder of a young couple outside Itamar in Samaria the previous night by squarely holding the government to blame for not preventing the tragedy.

Marzel revealed what he called the government's "share" in the murder of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin in front of their children, in an attack claimed by Fatah terrorists.

"When I wrote here several days ago that the blood of murdered Jews is first of all on the government of Israel, many were shocked by my words," began the veteran Hevron activist.

"Here is the proof: the road where the holy couple Eitam and Naama Henkin hy''d were murdered last night was closed to the cars of Arabs, who are mistakenly called 'Palestinians.'"

"This March the government decided to open the road to free traffic," said Marzel. "Yesterday came the price, the heavy and unbelievable price."

The government has in several instances opened roads in the region in recent months despite the warnings of residents.

In one incident in May, police were forced to re-close a road leading from Ramallah to the town of Bitin in Samaria to Arab traffic just hours after it was opened, after an Arab car blocked a Jewish car on its way to Beit El in a potential set up for an attack.

Second Jerusalem Stabbing Victim Laid to Rest

Rabbis and MKs, IDF attend funeral for Aharon Banita-Bennett, who was murdered Saturday night in Jerusalem.

By Tova Dvorin

First Publish: 10/4/2015, 2:20 PM / Last Update: 10/4/2015, 3:16 PM

21 year-old Aharon Banita Bennett was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Givat Shaul, in the presence of thousands of mourners. 

Bennett, along with Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, were murdered in a stabbing attack from a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday night. 

The same attack injured his wife and son; his infant daughter miraculously escaped unscathed. 

Lavi was murdered in that attack when he ran out of his home to help Bennett; he was laid to rest at noon Sunday in the same cemetery. Israeli leaders hailed him as a hero for his actions. 

Despite being an IDF soldier, Bennett will be buried in the cemetery's civilian section, at the request of his wife, Adelle Banita. IDF soldiers are accompanying Bennett throughout the funeral ceremony, however.

Isi Leibler, author  speaks in the Jerusalem Post on the Refugee crisis

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Candidly-Speaking-Jews-Islamophobia-and-compassion-for-refugees-419862

Hamas Cell Arrested for Murders of Henkin Couple
Five terrorists from the Shechem area admitted to the murders and to two other shooting attacks that failed.

Security forces have arrested a five-member Hamas cell from the Shechem area for the cold-blooded drive-by murders of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin last Thursday night in front of their four children.

The cell confessed to the terrorist attacks and told investigators that they also were behind two other recent shooting attacks, which miraculously failed to wound anyone but struck one vehicle.

Police and the IDF arrested other suspected terrorists who were involved in the attack. A gag order was lifted Monday by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), which along with the IDF and police arrested the cell Friday night.

The terrorists were identified as:

Ahmed Aliwi, 37, the ringleader and who recruited the terrorists for the cell and provided them with weapons;

Yahya Mohammed Hamad, 24, who shot and killed the Henkins;

Samir Ibrahim Kusa, 33, who was the driver in all three attacks;

Karam Fathi Razek, 23, who also fired at the Henkins; and

Ziad Ziad Jamil Amer, 31, who helped carry out the well-coordinated attack, with two terrorists in the attack vehicle and another member of cell driving a second vehicle to make sure the IDF was not patrolling at the time.

After the killers stopped the Henkins' car with gunfire, they left their vehicle and fired at the Henkin family at almost point-black range. The young children, the youngest a baby,were sitting in the back seat and were not wounded while watching their parents shot to death.

A mishap in the terrorist operation may have helped the Shin Bet to trace the gang. Razak was accidentally shot by one of the members of his cell and dropped his pistol, which was found by security forces.

Killers of the Henkin couple.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Monday, 5 October 2015), made the following statement:


"I would like to commend the ISA personnel who solved the terrible murder of the Henkins near Nablus. They acted very quickly and also apprehended the murderers. We are acting with a strong hand against terrorism and against inciters. We are operating on all fronts. We have brought an additional four IDF battalions into Judea and Samaria, and thousands of police into Jerusalem. The police are going deeply into the Arab neighborhoods, which has not been done in the past. We will demolish terrorists' homes. We are allowing our forces to take strong action against those who throw rocks and firebombs. This is necessary in order to safeguard the security of Israeli citizens on the roads and everywhere. We are not prepared to give immunity to any rioter, inciter or terrorist anywhere; therefore, there are no restrictions on the action of our security forces. We will also lift restrictions regarding action against inciters. We will act against the Islamic Movement which, together with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, is the main source of incitement.

I would like to thank the personnel of the IDF, Border Police, Israel Police and the ISA who have been working around the clock for our security; they are doing excellent work. They have full backing from me and from the government. We are in a difficult struggle but one thing should be clear – we will win. Just as we defeated previous waves of terrorism, we will defeat this one as well."
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On a Nefesh sponsored trip we take the three hour drive to the most unusual geographic area of Israel, the Mitzpe Ramon Canyon called a Makhtesh. There is also a memorial to the only Israeli Astronaut who took the name Ramon because of this crater.

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All related to Jewish incarceration and witness testimony.....

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What Would My Greatest Role Models Say to Me?

Ask yourself this valuable question: "What would my greatest role models say to me now?"

Think of different people you respect and admire, both people you now know and people you've known in the past. Think of people whose books you have read or whose recordings you have heard. Think of great people in the past that you now wish you could have learned from in person.

It's helpful if you write down a list of the names of these great teachers and role models. Now review your list and ask yourself about each one: "What are some of the main lessons this person would teach me?"

You can have many inspiring and enlightening self-conversations by imagining that the greatest people who ever lived were asking you questions. So ask yourself, "If so and so were to ask me an insightful question about myself and my life, what do I think he would ask me now?"

When you use your imagination and stored knowledge to have self-conversations with great people, you will find yourself having many meaningful and inspiring self-conversations about important topics and subjects.

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Supreme Moslem Council in 1925: Jerusalem's Temple Mount is Jewish

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Palestinian propaganda exposed: The Supreme Moslem Council debunked the false, but widely-disseminated Arab claim, that the Temple Mount isn't Jewish in a 1925 Waqf pamphlet.

By Hillel Fendel

 

The widely-disseminated Arab Moslem position that the Temple Mount is not Jewish has been debunked – by the Supreme Moslem Council (Waqf) of Jerusalem, in a Temple Mount guide published in 1925.

Guidebook Puts the Lie to Current Arab Campaign

In 1997, the chief Moslem cleric of the Palestinian Authority, Mufti Ikrama Sabri, stated, "The claim of the Jews to the right over [Jerusalem] is false, and we recognize nothing but an entirely Islamic Jerusalem under Islamic supervision…"

Thus began a campaign to convince the world that the millennia-old natural association between Jerusalem and Jews was untrue.  As Islamic Movement chief Raed Salah stated in 2006, "We remind, for the 1,000th time, that the entire Al-Aqsa mosque [on the Temple Mount], including all of its area and alleys above the ground and under it, is exclusive and absolute Moslem property, and no one else has any rights to even one grain of earth in it."

However, it is now known that this "absolute" Moslem claim is actually not as absolute as claimed. In fact, back in 1925, the Supreme Moslem Council – also known as the Waqf, which has overseen Temple Mount activities on behalf of the Moslem religion for hundreds of years – boasted proudly that the site was none other than that of Solomon's Temple.

The Jerusalem-based Temple Institute

(http://www.templeinstitute.org) reports that it has acquired a copy of the official 1925 Supreme Moslem Council Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Moslem name for the Temple Mount).  On page 4, the Waqf states, "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which 'David built there an altar unto the L-rd," citing the source in 2 Samuel XXIV,25.

To download a facsimile of the entire sixteen page guidebook, please click here. (pdf file)

In addition, on page 16, the pamphlet makes reference to the underground area in the south-east corner of the Mount, which is refers to as Solomon's Stables.  "Little is known for certain of the history of the chamber itself," the guide reads. "It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D."The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was in fact the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples which stood for nearly 1,000 years (see below).

Wakf guidebook, 1925, Figure 1, Page 2 – The Temple Institute

Proof of Moslem Anti-Jewish Revisionism

The Temple Institute's Rabbi Chaim Richman writes that the pamphlet provides proof that the Waqf's current position is a departure from traditional Muslim belief.  "In recent years," he writes, "the Moslem Waqf has come to deny the historic existence of the Holy Temple, claiming that the Temple Mount belongs solely to the Moslem nation, and that there exists no connection between the Jewish nation and the Temple Mount. It is clear from this pamphlet that the revised Waqf position strays from traditional Moslem acknowledgment of the Mount's Jewish antecedents.""The current denial of historical reality is merely one tool in the war being waged by Moslems against the G-d of Israel and the entire 'infidel' world," Richman declares.Examples of the new Palestinian/Arab position on Jerusalem:
PA Mufti Sabri was quoted in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam on November 22, 1997 as saying, "The 'Al-Buraq' Wall [the Western Wall] is a part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Jews have no relation to it."

The same newspaper, on July 18, 1997, reported that Hamad Yusef, head of The Institution for the Rejuvenation of the Palestinian Heritage, referred to the "false historical claim of the Jews in the holy city, a claim which they were unable to prove in all of the excavations conducted by foreign groups for the past hundred years." The paper also stated that Hamad "accused the Israelis of unprecedented historical forgeries, emphasizing the Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic nature of the holy city for the past 6,000 years. Israel fails in her attempt to find a historical connection to Jerusalem."  (courtesy of Jewish Virtual Library)

Jewish History on the Mount

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the site of the two Jewish Holy Temples, the first of which was built by King Solomon in the year 832 BCE, close to 1,500 years before Islam was founded. It stood for over 400 years, and after the 70-year Babylonian Exile, a Second Temple was built on the same site. Thus, for nearly 1,000 years, Holy Temples stood on the site, until the Romans conquered the entire land and destroyed the Second Temple. Though the area came under the control of the RomansByzantines, Moslems, Christians, Turks, British and others over the intervening centuries, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were always the focus of Jewish religious and national yearnings, and continued to be the Jews' "capital" even while in exile. In the Six Day War of 1967, the modern State of Israel liberated the Temple Mount area and all of Jerusalem, placing it under Jewish control once again after a hiatus of 1,900 years.

Israel, however, never actualized its sovereignty over the holy Temple Mount site, but rather granted the Waqf nearly total control. Jews, in fact, have not been allowed to pray there ever since then-Chief IDF Rabbi Shlomo Goren led a prayer service there on the first Tisha B'Av after the liberation.  Jews' visiting hours are also restricted.

 

salem. Police units searching area. 3 injured Israelis receiving medical treatment."

Jerusalem Terror Victims Identified, Baby and Mother Wounded in Attack

Two Israeli rabbis were murdered, a mother and baby were wounded in an Arab terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem Saturday night.

By: Jewish Press Staff

Published: October 3rd, 2015
Latest update: October 4th, 2015

Volunteer carries wounded toddler to ambulance after Arab terror attack near Lion's Gate in Old City of Jerusalem.
Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90

Rabbi Aharon Bennet, 24, and Rabbi Nechemia Lavi 41,died at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center after they were attacked in the Old City on Saturday night by an Arab terrorist.

Bennet was a Breslov Chossid from Beitar Illit. Lavi, a father of 7, was a rabbi at Yeshiva Ateret HaCohanim and Talmud Torah Moriah in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The attack came at around 7:30 pm as the family was walking from the Western Wall to the Lion's Gate on HaGai Street in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Bennet's wife, 22, is in very serious condition and their 2-year-old toddler is in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the leg as a result of the attack. Their young daughter was also present but escaped injury.

The Arab terrorist, Muhanad Halabi, 19, was neutralized by Israel Police. His murderous attack is being praised by various Arab groups; Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims the teenager was a member of its terrorist organization.

Muhanad repeatedly stabbed Bennet and then Lavi, who had just finished the IDF rabbinical course two months ago, before grabbing Lavi's gun and shooting the other members of the family. Bennet's wife ran to summon police at the start of the attack, despite her wounds. The terrorist meanwhile turned the gun on a nearby group of people who had just completed a tour of the area.

Police shot and killed the terrorist.

"The Arab suspect repeatedly stabbed the three Israelis while they were walking the near the Lion's Gate," said Israel Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld. "Border Police and [other] police responded immediately and shot the terrorist, neutralizing hi
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Why I Don't Feel Stupid Anymore and Einstein Quotes

Mevo Modi'im Art Fair on Succout Chol Amud 2015

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Criticize Constructively 

Before you say something critical, ask yourself, "Will anything constructive come from my being critical right now?"

If the answer is "no," switch yourself in midstream and say something pleasant instead.

Keeping your mouth shut is usually the best practice.

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Caroline Glick talks about the worth of Jewish Lives at conference (important)

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The Nations Succah Parade right in front of my apartment. The nations celebrate Israel instead of attacking, on a parade.

Netanyahu at the UN

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MAUREEN MCGOVERN Sings  "THE MORNING AFTER" - JERRY LEWIS MDA TELETHON, 1988 (334)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKezbcSZ5M

Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand Tie for Best Actress: 1969 Oscars

Award given by Ingrid Bergman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoNdQxkI-0w

Cher winning Best Actress in Moonstruck

Award given by Paul Newman and Chevy Chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP3lB-HTbbc

Nashville, (1975), by Robert Altman. Soundtrack: "I'm easy", performed by Keith Carradine. the Oscar winning song of the year

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Quotes

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , October 26,1929. Reprinted in "Glimpses of the Great"(1930).

• "Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?"

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in an interview with New York Times, March 12,1944.

• "I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by E. Salaman in " A Talk with Einstein", Listener 54 (1955)

• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Fred Wall, 1933. AEA 31–845

• "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Carl Seelig – March 11,1952. AEA 39–013

• "Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake."

  —Albert Einstein --- From a letter to Gustav Bucky, 1945. AEA 037–462

• "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

  —Albert Einstein --- From an address at the commencement excercises of Swarthmore College, 1938

• The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science…"

  From "The World As I See It" (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 11.

• "Regarding sex education: no secrets!"

  —Albert Einstein --- To the World League for Sexual Reform, September 6,1929. AEA 48–304

• "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

  —Albert Einstein --- To J. Dispentiere – March 24, 1954. AEA 59–495

• "The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger – May 20,1912. AEA 39–655

• "If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self…."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, ca. December 2, 1913. CPAE, Vol 5, Doc.489.

• "I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger – April 11,1946. AEA 38–228

• "Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , October 26,1929. Reprinted in "Glimpses of the Great",1930.

• "I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Portraits & Self-Portraits by George Schreiber 1935–1936. AEA 28–332

• "It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois." ---

  —Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, after August 3, 1914. CPAE, Vol. 8, Doc.32.

• "Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Pauline Winteler – July 3,1897. AEA 29–453

• "The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem."

  —Albert Einstein --- From Address, October 15, 1936 – Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 60.

• "Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man."

  —Albert Einstein --- To V. Bulgakow, November 4, 1931. AEA 45–702.

• "People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger, September 29,1942.

  AEA 38–238

• "I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "The World As I See It" (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 8.

• "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."

  ---Albert Einstein ---From Mein Weltbild (1934). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 12

• "Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

  —Albert Einstein --- To F.S. Wada, July 30, 1947. AEA 58–934.

• "I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality…."

  —Albert Einstein --- From address to the Disarmament Conference of 1932 (1931). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 95.

• "Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, September 9, 1920. AEA 8–151.

• "I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. In the face of all this, I have never lost a sense of distance and the need for solitude."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "The World As I See It" (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 99.

• "Music does not influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the release they offer."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Paul Plaut, October 23, 1928. AEA 28–065

• "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

  —Albert Einstein ---. From "My Future Plans", September 18,1896. CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 22.

• "Where there is love, there is no imposition."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Sayen, Einstein in America, 294.

• "The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

  —Albert Einstein --- From Civilization and Science, October 3, 1933. Quoted in The Times (London), October 4, 1933.

• "Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in Conversations with Einstein (1920) 65.

• "My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."

  —Albert Einstein --- Statement to Abba Eban, November 18,1952. AEA 28–943.

• "I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in M. Wertheimer, "Productive Thinking" (1959).

• "I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously."

  —Albert Einstein --- To P. Moos, March 30,1950. AEA 60–587.

• "As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, February 16,1935. AEA 32–385.

• "If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value."

  —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, June 27,1920. AEA 36–582.

• "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in the New York Times, June 20,1932 AEA 29–041

• "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough."

  —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, 1945–1946. AEA 36–570

• "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in Life Magazine, May 2, 1955

• "The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in Life Magazine, May 2,1955

• "To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged…."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Gertrude Warschauer, February 5, 1955. AEA 39–532

• "The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Reverend C. Greenway, November 20,1950. AEA 28–894.

• "Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal."

  —Albert Einstein --- From Address, October 15, 1936. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 62

• "I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace…. Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"

  —Albert Einstein --- From an interview 1931. Reprinted in Einstein on Peace, 125

• "The heart says yes, but the mind says no."

  —Albert Einstein --- From the Travel Diary, February 13,1923. AEA 29–129

• "One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever…". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

  To Hans Muehsam, March 30,1954. AEA 38–434.

• "A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Ehlers, Liebes Hertz! 45

• "He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Die Friedensbewegung, ed. Kurt Lenz and Walter Fabian (1922) 17.

• "There is nothing divine about [the scientist's] morality; it is a purely human affair." –

  —Albert Einstein --- From Mein Weltbild (1934. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 40

• "Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, 190.

• "A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Dr. Eugenie Anderman, June 2, 1953. AEA 59–097

• "Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in P.A. Bucky, Der Private Albert Einstein, 276

• "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Barbara Wilson, January 7, 1943. AEA 42–606.

• "The value of achievement lies in the achieving."

  —Albert Einstein --- To D. Liberson, October 28, 1950. AEA 60–297

• "The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least."

  —Albert Einstein --- From The Goal of Human Existence, April 11, 1943. AEA 28–587

• "The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Lincoln Barnett, Smithsonian, February 1979, 74

• "If only I could give you some of my happiness so you would never be sad and depressed again."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Mileva Marić, May 9, 1901. CPAE, Vol.1, Doc.106.

• "My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in The Tower, April 13, 1935.

• "[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Betty Neumann, 1924.

• "I admit that thoughts influence the body."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by W. Hermanns in A Talk with Einstein, October 1943. AEA 55–285.

• "Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by R. W.Clark in Einstein :The Life and Times, 268

• "It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Jeremiah McGuire, October 24,1953. AEA 60–483

• "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max Kariel, August 3,1953. AEA 60–058.

• "A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment."

  —Albert Einstein --- To T. Lee, January 16,1954. AEA 60–235.

• "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself."

  —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, September 18,1930. AEA 36–598

• "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Ernst Straus in French, Einstein: A Centenary Volume, 32

• "Truly novel ideas emerge only in one's youth. Later on one becomes more experienced, famous—and foolish."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Heinrich Zangger, December 6, 1917. AEA 39–689

• "With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, December 24, 1919. AEA 39–726

• ("Violence may at times have quickly cleared away an obstruction, but it has never proved itself to be creative." ) Should read: "Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative"---

  —Albert Einstein---From "Was Europe a Success?" (1934). Reprinted in Einstein: Essays in Humanism, 49

• "What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers." Should read: " … the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers."

  —Albert Einstein ---From "Autobiographical Notes" in P. Schilpp ed., Albert Einstein : Philosopher – Scientist,(1949) 33.

• "…My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate position." Should read: "My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate role".

  —Albert Einstein --- To Mileva Marić, July 7,1901. CPAE, Vol.1. Doc. 114.

• "The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" (1933). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 274.

• "The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview with A. Aram, January 3, 1953. AEA 59–109

• "Whoever is careless with truth in small matters can not be trusted in important affairs."

  —Albert Einstein. --- From draft of address on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of Israel's independence, April 1955 AEA 60–003

• "Without 'ethical culture,' there is no salvation for humanity."

  —Albert Einstein---From "The Need for Ethical Culture", January 5,1951. AEA 28–904

• "The economists will have to revise their theories of value."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in J. Sayen, Einstein in America, 150

• "I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spiritual things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood."

  —Albert Einstein --- To L. Manners, March 19,1954. AEA 60–401.

• "Morality is the highest importance—but for us, not for God."

  —Albert Einstein --- To M.M. Schayer, August 1927. AEA 48–380

• "Work is the only thing that gives substance to life."

  —Albert Einstein --- To son Hans Albert, January 4,1937.

• "I have, for the first time, seen a happy and healthy society whose members are fully absorbed in it."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Michele Besso, May 24, 1924. AEA 7–349

• "Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in M. Grüning, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein, 159

• "I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed."

  —Albert Einstein --- To H. Freund, January 1927. AEA 46–304

• "The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in Grüning, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein, 240

• "I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in P. Michelmore, Einstein: Profile of the Man, 251

• "God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in G.J. Whitrow, Einstein: the man and his achievement, 91

• "Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Marie Winteler, April 21,1896, CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 18

• "What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility…."

  —Albert Einstein --- Should read: "What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can comprehend only imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility…" Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, "AE: The Human Side", 39

• "The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life."

  —Albert Einstein – From "Science and God: A Dialogue". In Forum and Century 83 (1930), 373

• "All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Abba Eban, November 18,1952. AEA 28–943

• "I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work…. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Michele Besso, October 10,1938. AEA 7–376

• "I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, March 10, 1917. AEA 39–680

• "Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth …and a pen in pocket or hand…."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Elisabeth Ney, September 30, 1920. AEA 42–545

• "My mother has died…. We are all completely exhausted. One feels in one's bones the significance of blood ties."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, March 1920, AEA 39–732

• "When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice."

  —Albert Einstein --- From a letter to his son Eduard, 1922

• "I am an artist's model"

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by H. Samuel , October 1930. AEA 21–006

• "A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "The World As I See It" (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 8 .

• "I have not eaten enough of the Tree of Knowledge, though in my profession I am obliged to feed on it regularly."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, November 9,1919. AEA 8–142

• "Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in Daily Express ( London), September 11,1933.

• "That little word 'WE' I mistrust and here's why:

  No man of another can say "He is I".

  Behind all agreement lies something amiss

  All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, AE: The Human Side, 100

• "Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in Conversations with Einstein, 184

• "Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals."

  —Albert Einstein ---From address, September 19,1954. AEA 28–1054

• "There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."

  —Albert Einstein --- From Why I remain a Negro, October 1947. AEA 59–009

• "Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings."

  —Albert Einstein --- To E. Zschimmer, September 30,1921. AEA 24–156

• "An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour."

  Quoted by Helen Dukas in Sayen, Einstein in America, 130.

• "All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "Physics and Reality" (1936). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 290

• "Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "My Credo" 1932. AEA 28–218

• "I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, September 7,1944. AEA 8–207

• "Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."

  —Albert Einstein --- To E. Mulder, April 1954. AEA 60–609

• "I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone—the enchanting youth that forever walks on air."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Anna Meyer-Schmid, May 12, 1909. AEA 44–445

• "Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "At a gathering for freedom of opinion" (1936). Reprinted in Einstein: Essays in Humanism, 50

• "We must …dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories."

  —Albert Einstein --- Published in Pictoral Review, February 1933. Quoted in R.W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times

• "Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions."

  —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, AEA 28–388

• "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Beatrice Frohlich, December 17, 1952. AEA59–797

• "Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "My Credo", 1932. AEA 28–218

• "I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war."

  —Albert Einstein --- From Die Friedensbewegung, ed., Kurt Lenz and Walter Fabian (1922)

• "I do not play games…. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in New York Times, March 28, 1936, 34:2

• "He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, April 30,1912, CPAE, Vol.5, Doc. 389

• "Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Romain Rolland, March 22, 1915. AEA 33–002

• "I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here."

  —Albert Einstein --- To E. Schaerer-Meyer, July 27,1951. AEA 60–525

• "Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view."

  —Albert Einstein ---From "Autobiographical Notes" in Schilpp, Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist (1949), 3

• "It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."

  —Albert Einstein --- From an interview June 23, 1946. Reprinted in Einstein on Peace, 385

• "Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all."

  —Albert Einstein --- To V.T. Aaltonen, May 7, 1952. AEA 59–059

• "The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Paul Ehrenfest, July 12, 1924. AEA 10–089

• "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."

  —Albert Einstein --- From " Education for Independent Thought" (1952). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 67. AEA 60–723

• "It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, March 3,1920. AEA 8–146

• "The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in Life Magazine, January 9,1950.

• "You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Dr. Eugenie Anderman, June 2, 1953. AEA 59–097

• "The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in P. Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, 185

• "I am very happy with my new home in friendly America and in the liberal atmosphere of Princeton."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in "Survey Graphic", 24 (August 1935) 384,413

• "I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Hedwig Born, June 18, 1920. AEA 8–257

• "When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel, 4

• "The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is …the criterion of true pacifism."

  —Albert Einstein --- To A. Morrisett, March 21,1952. AEA 60–595

• "The trite objects of human efforts—possessions, superficial success, luxury—have always seemed contemptible to me."

  —Albert Einstein --- From, "The World As I See It" (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 9.

• "I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, 1918. CPAE Vol 8, Doc. 597

• "There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor."

  —Albert Einstein ---From a Conversation with Rabindrath Tagore, July 14,1930. Published in Asia 31 (1931)

• "No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in W. Hermanns, A Talk with Einstein. AEA 55–285

• "What really interests me is whether God could have created the world any differently; in other words, whether the demand for logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Ernst Straus in Seelig, Helle Zeit, dunkle Zeit, 72

• "At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct."

  —Albert Einstein--- To Marcel Grossmann, September 12, 1920. AEA 11–500

• "The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Michele Besso, February 12, 1915, CPAE, Vol.8, Doc 56

• "It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character."

  —Albert Einstein--- To Jacob Laub, May 19,1909. AEA 15–480

• "I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact

  —Albert Einstein --- In Jüdische Rundschau, June 21, 1921. CPAE Vol. 7, Doc. 57

• "To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains."

  —Albert Einstein --- To L. Manners, March 19,1954. AEA 60–401

• "Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in Portraits & Self-Portraits, by George Schreiber 1935–1936. AEA 28–332.

• "In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Carl Seelig, October 25, 1953. AEA39–053

• "I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in an interview, New York Times, August 12, 1945.

• "…I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure."

  —Albert Einstein ---Quoted in The Tower, April 13, 1935

• "Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Max and Hedwig Born, April 29, 1924. AEA 8–176

• "There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Max Brod, February 22, 1949. AEA 34–066.1

• "Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties."

  —Albert Einstein --- To K. Haenisch, September 8, 1920. AEA 36–022

• "Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being…."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "Why Socialism?" (1949). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 153

• "Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want."

  —Albert Einstein --- Aphorism 1923. AEA 36–591

• "Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel, 20

• "The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems….I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done."

  —Albert Einstein --- Quoted by James Franck in Seelig, Albert Einstein, (1954), 84

• "I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however."

  —Albert Einstein --- To Tyfanny Williams, August 25, 1946. AEA 42–612

• "The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion."

  —Albert Einstein --- From "Some Notes on My American Impressions". Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 6

• "Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect."

  —Albert Einstein ---To a Japanese scholar (1923). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 262

• "It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously…."

  —Albert Einstein ---To Joseph Scharl, December 27, 1949. AEA 34–207

• "O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?"

  —Albert Einstein ---To I Stern, 1932. Reprinted in Dukas and Hoffmann ed. , Albert Einstein: The Human Side, (1979) 30. AEA 51–870

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Slide shows with meaning and the Cohen blessing and Hahkel at the Western Wall and the President's Succah

Power of Patience 

The Talmud (Airuvin 54b) relates that Rabbi Praida had to repeat each lesson to a certain student four hundred times until the student understood it. This is usually cited as an example of the patience needed to be a teacher. We can also see the courage and perseverance of the student.

Most people would give up after twenty or thirty repetitions and say they lack the necessary intelligence to comprehend the subject. This student realized he would eventually understand if he just heard each point enough times. When you say you cannot understand something, how many times did you try before you reached your conclusion? We have tremendous ability to understand almost anything if we have the patience to hear the ideas enough times. Pride gets in the way, and so does frustration. But a truth seeker does not worry about what others might think and keeps his mind on the goal.

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The Cohen blessing at the Western Wall (Kotel) on Wednesday Morning, Sept 30, 2015 (video)

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/201228#.Vgw0-5fKZaZ

In the afternoon was the once every seven year blessing of Hahkel

Hahkel at the Kotel on Sept. 30, 2015.
Photo Credit: JewishPress.com

Today, the Jewish people had the opportunity to perform a relatively rare commandment called Hahkel.

Devarim 31:10-13

10: And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

11: when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

12: Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

13: and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'

Today the Hahkel ceremony, as described above was performed at the Kotel, as Israeli President Ruby Rivlin spoke and got called up to the Torah, and the various Chief Rabbis read.

The Kotel plaza was packed from the Wailing Wall to all the way up the stairs in the surrounding buildings.

It was amazing.

Here is the video of President Rivlin at the Torah.

https://youtu.be/FbNdqWnSCmk

Once a year they open the president's house to show off his Succah. Guess who was there (me)!!


https://youtu.be/5FerWKAcBwg

Pretty amazing ball bearings playing music

https://www.facebook.com/KraftyKutsOfficial/videos/10152812514114429/

Star fish story-nicely done:

• Starfish Story

Lost Highway with Hank Williams

• Lost Highway – Hank Williams

Memories of the 1950's


Memories of the 1950's

Aging in a Painting

Aging in a Painting

Live Birth of a calf--G-d is pretty amazing:

https://www.facebook.com/butenunbinnen/videos/949602151744444/

Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot: (Exodus 33:12-34:26)

September 27th, began Sukkot (or Sukkos in the Ashkenazi pronunciation). Next week comes Shemini Atzeret (Sunday evening, October 4th) and Simchat Torah (starting Monday evening, October 5th)! In Israel, Simchat Torah is observed concurrently with Shemini Atzeret since they celebrate only one day of Yom Tov. However, outside of Israel we celebrate two days of Yom Tov -- and they are celebrated on separate days.

Shemini Atzeret is actually a separate festival adjacent to Sukkot. Rashi, the great Biblical commentator, explains that atzeret is an expression of affection, as would be used by a father to children who are departing from him. The father would say, "Your departure is difficult for me, tarry yet another day." The Jewish people prayed and brought offerings all the days of Sukkot so that the 70 nations of the world would have rain in the coming year. The Torah and the Almighty keeps us one more day for a special holiday to make requests just for ourselves. That's Shemini Atzeret.

Simchat Torah is the celebration of completing the yearly cycle of Torah reading and beginning it again. The evening and again the next morning are filled with dance and songs rejoicing in the Torah and thanking God for our being Jewish and that the Almighty gave us the Torah! We read the last Torah portion in Deuteronomy, Vezot Habracha and then begin immediately with Bereishit, starting the book of Genesis. If you take your kids to synagogue twice a year -- one time should be Simchat Torah!

The Torah portion we read on Simchat Torah is Vezot Habracha. It begins with the blessings that Moshe gives to the Jewish people and each tribe right before he dies. Then Moshe ascends Mt. Nebo where the Almighty shows him all of the land the Jewish people are about to inherit. He dies, is buried in the valley in an unknown spot, the Jewish people mourn for 30 days. The Torah then concludes with the words, "Never again has there arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Almighty had known face to face ..."

Yizkor, the memorial  service for parents and relatives -- and Jews who have been killed because they were Jewish or in defending the Jewish people and Israel -- is observed Monday morning, October 5th.
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