Abraham Cahan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Fasting #Study #Praying
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Heart #Fighting #Envy
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Lying #Deceit #Looks
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Dream #Fool #Wealth
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Wind #Curls #World
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
-- Abraham Cahan
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Brother #New York #Prayer
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Dream #Dreamer #Great Day
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Broken Heart #Men #Laughing
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Humble #Simple #Modest
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Religious #Orthodox #Religious Life
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Spiritual #Race #People
He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Party #Russia #Race
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Proud #Be Proud #Feels
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Men #Fire #Example
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Reality #Other Worlds #Substance
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Life #Life Is
You must never tire fighting Satan.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Fighting #Satan #Tire

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