Mazel Quotes

“There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel.” (p. 343)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“Hershel Blau, son of the Chasidic wandering preacher, was not yet so distant from his father's world that he didn't know deep in his soul the yearning to fly. What is a Chasid's dance but one long, sustained attempt to arch away into suspended ascension, beyond laws of bodies, a thing of air and light and fire? (p. 261)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel

“For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)”
― rebecca goldstein, Mazel

“Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)”
― Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel