Filled with Fire and Light Quotes

“One must not rely on the dead,” he said. “One must rely on the living—and on God who gives life to the living.”
― Elie Wiesel, Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World

“What is the Torah? It means study and teaching, the practice of mitzvot and faith in God who articulated them. The Torah is more a blueprint for the future than a history of the past. It contains the meaning of life and the solutions to its problems. “Hafokh bah v’hafokh bah dekhola vah,” says the Talmud. Turn the pages of the Torah and turn them again, for everything is in them. That is why, in our prayers, we find the expression ahavat Torah, love for Torah, as frequently as yirat shamayim, fear of heaven. It is in the Torah that the people of Israel met for the first time the God of Israel. They continue meeting there to this day.”
― Elie Wiesel, Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World