Itzhak Peretz Quotes

According to the generation is the music thereof.

The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains—eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

We become more united in exile than in Palestine.

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

The worst dog gets the best bone.

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

"For the commandment is a lamp" [Prov. 6.23]. And the spark which kindles the commandment is devotion.

They are all so-called Christian nations, but... this superimposed religion... does not penetrate into the core of their souls. It has no relation to their daily experience... It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

[Christianity] is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.

Children... constitute man's eternity.

The bigger the merchant the smaller the Jew.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

I want to soar the boundless blue
Where winds and tempests have their birth,
And let the clouds conceal for me
Not heaven, but the earth.