Author - Arthur Kurzweil
"The relation between God and the Assembly of Israel has been likened to that between man and wife"
"A tradition cannot leave things in a state of unchanging status quo"
The concept of a continuous chain is central to the whole Jewish outlook on tradition"
"Jewish tradition is full and complete because it is open to additions"
"The bright light of revealtion of the Torah at Sinai fused it into a single entity"
"The Torah is an inheritance for the entire Jewish people"
"To view the Torah as a book of laws of a set religious system is a distortion"
"The very essence of the Talmud is a paradox"