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    The Elie Wiesel Living Archive

    at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

    God in the Bible

    Torah as a Place of Meeting for God and Israel

    Oct 10, 1996

    According to Professor Wiesel, there is one place from which God cannot be removed and that is the Bible. Professor Wiesel analyzes Biblical texts to discern and define God’s place in everything and in particular God’s design for His people and all people. Professor Wiesel teaches us that a Jew can be with God or against God, but not without God.

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    Selected Quotes:
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    Ask any child, and he will tell you that God is a tale. Every tale is, in some mysterious way, about God, too. (00:00:26)
    Elie Wiesel
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    For a believer, God is and therefore is everywhere, in every being. In every sight, in every sound. For a non-believer, it is the absence of God that fills the universe. (00:03:58)
    Elie Wiesel
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    But then, instead of irrevocably giving up on humanity, God endows it with yet another virtue: hope. (00:29:00)
    Elie Wiesel
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    What man conceives as harshness may in fact turn out to be beneficial to his or her development. God is mysterious, and surprising are His ways. (00:31:40)
    Elie Wiesel
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    For God, the goal sanctifies the means. (00:40:09)
    Elie Wiesel
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    What is certain is that as everywhere in the Bible, in Egypt also, God is deeply involved in the affairs of Israel. And in general, in the amazing progression of human history. (00:41:50)
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    His main effort is to persuade the former slaves that freedom is to be won every day, and never to be taken for granted. And this applies to their Jewishness as well. (00:42:21)
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    There was never unanimity in Israel, nor is there now. (00:45:18)
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    How many times in the Bible were the people and their God, our God, on opposing sides on ethical issues? (00:46:01)
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    A song of gratitude is almost by definition a song of love, and the other way around. (00:47:17)
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    It is in the Torah that the people of Israel met for the first time the God of Israel, and they continue meeting there to this day. (00:49:09)
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    As a motivating source for education, the Torah is unsurpassable. (53:25)
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    There is something in the Torah that moves even those who do not celebrate its sanctity. (00:56:46)
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    God is in the Bible only to tell us not that He is at a particular place in a special situation, but simply that He is. (00:59:05)
    Elie Wiesel
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    Subthemes:
    1) Where do we look for God?
    2) Where don't we look for God?
    3) Parable of the dreamer
    4) God at the beginning and end, The Many Names of God
    5) 30th year at 92Y
    6) Genesis 1, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel
    7) God and Noah
    8) God and Abraham: Encounters and Negotiations God and the Community of Israel
    9) The Bible as a Love Story
    10) The Significance of Torah
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