Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry Quotes

“In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. And in the long run, it’s better to please God—He’s more apt to remember.”
― Harry Kemelman, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry

“Ben is a businessman through and through. When a businessman decides that the time has come to give charity, he views it as a business proposition. He is buying kovod, honor. And naturally he wants to get the most for his kovod dollar. If he uses the money to build a chapel—say the Goralsky Memorial Chapel—who will see it? Who will know about it except the folks here in Barnard’s Crossing? But,” he lowered his voice, “suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The Goralsky Chemical Research Laboratory? Eh? Scientists and scholars from all over the world would get to hear of it.”
― Harry Kemelman, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry

“You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.”
― Harry Kemelman, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry

“suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The”
― Harry Kemelman, Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry