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Reb Isaac Saunders Quotes

Nine of the best book quotes from Reb Isaac Saunders
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“We are commanded to study His Torah! We are commanded to sit in the light of the Presence! It is for this that we were created! . . . Not the world, but the people of Israel!”
Chaim Potok
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The Chosen
Torah
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Reuven Malter
Reb Isaac Saunders
Danny Saunders
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light
world
commandments
creation
jews
Israel
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“Reb Saunders sat back slowly in his chair. And from his lips came a soft, tremulous sigh. He was silent for a moment, his eyes wide, dark, brooding, gazing upon his son. He nodded his head once, as if in final acknowledgment of his tortured victory.”
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“[My father] taught me with silence. . .to look into myself, to find my own strength, to walk around inside myself in company with my soul. . . . One learns of the pain of others by suffering one’s own pain … by turning inside oneself. . . . It makes us aware of how frail and tiny we are and of how much we must depend upon the Master of the Universe.”
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“Then he spoke his son’s name.”
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“I have no choice,” he said again. “It’s like a dynasty. If the son doesn’t take the father’s place, the dynasty falls apart. The people expect me to be their rabbi. My family has been their rabbi for six generations now.”
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“My son is my most precious possession. I have nothing in the world compared to my son. I must know what he is reading.”
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“Forgive me…for everything…I have done…A─ a wiser father…may have done differently. I am not…wise.”
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“How will I teach this mind what it is to have a soul? How will I teach this mind to understand pain? How will I teach it to want to take on another person’s suffering?”
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“There are better ways to teach a child compassion.”

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