Torah Quotes: Whole Torah by Quotes

Goal of this page is to present a whole spectrum of the Divine Wisdom from Torah. Only concise set of quotes is chosen to present in clear wording God’s view on all the topics concerning every human being today and also those which apply only to Israel. This set, as a “mini-Torah”, intended to reveal the right and wrong in every dispute, to clear any confusion arising from wrong interpretations and wrong ideas, to help a sincere student to get a complete picture of the Divine Reasoning for life.

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The ultimate goal of life, spirituality and religion:

Then you will begin to seek God your Lord, and if you pursue Him with all your heart and soul, you will eventually find Him. (Deuteronomy, 4:29)

And you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deuteronomy 6:5)

Remain in awe of God, serve Him, cling to Him. (Deuteronomy, 10:20)

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life. (Deuteronomy, 30:16)

Let those who wish to glory, glory in knowing and understanding Me. (Jeremiah 9:23)

I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears. (Psalms 34:4)

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On Creation:

On two epochs (two calendars): before creation of Adam and after:

Consider the days of old, the years of the many generations. (Deuteronomy, 32:7)

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Understanding the principle of Oneness of God:

Listen Israel, God is our Lord, God is One. (Deuteronomy, 6:4)

That you will know that God is the Supreme Being and there is none besides Him. (Deuteronomy 4:35)

God your Lord is the God of gods and the Master of masters. (Deuteronomy, 10:17)

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On Idol Worship:

And it is certain that if ever you turn away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them, I bear witness to you today that destruction will overtake you. (Deuteronomy 8:19)

He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection! (Deuteronomy 32:37-38)

But now see - it is I! I am the only One! There are no (other) gods with me! (Deuteronomy 32:39)

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Understanding the source of good and evil - God is a creator of both but people choose evil:

See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil. (Deuteronomy, 30:15)

I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so choose life for yourselves and for your descendants. (Deuteronomy, 30:19)

They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation. (Deuteronomy 32:5)

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On Israel - as a chosen nation:

You are a nation consecrated to God your Lord. God your Lord chose you to be His special people among all the nations on the face of the earth. (Deuteronomy, 7:8)

The heaven, the heaven of heavens, the earth and everything in it, all belong to God. Still, it was only with your ancestors that God developed a closeness. He loved them and therefore chose you, their descendants from among all the nations (Deuteronomy, 10:14-15)

For God’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. (Deuteronomy 32:9)

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage. (Psalms 33:12)

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Giving the Law tied to the Promised Land:

God commanded me to teach you rules and laws so that you will keep them in the Land which you are crossing to occupy. (Deuteronomy, 4:14)

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other. (Deuteronomy 11:12)

He will bless you in the Land that He, God your Lord, is giving you. (Deuteronomy 28:8)

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On judgment, judicial:

Judgment belongs to God. (Deuteronomy, 1:17)

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On fighting evil in the midst of Israel, opposing the widespread Rabbinical opinion that Jewish Unity even with evildoers prevails:

So you shall remove the evil from the midst of you. (Deuteronomy, repeated many times in 13:5, 17:7, 17:12, 19:19, 21:21, 22:21, 22:22,22:24, 24:7 )

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Commandments of Jewish warfare:

The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders. (Deuteronomy 31:5)

When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.  And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants. If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides. And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy. But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food. So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept alive. (Deuteronomy 20:10-16)

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Hidden source of Jewish Power - the Blessings and Power of God:

The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage. (Deuteronomy 31:3)

Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you. (Deuteronomy 31:6)

All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said. (Deuteronomy 11:25)

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Warning of punishments for going astray:

If you do not obey God your Lord and do not carefully  keep all His commandments and decrees as I am prescribing for you today, then all these curses to bear on you … (following goes a list of curses and punishments, edit.)  (Deuteronomy 28:15)

and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage. And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge. (Deuteronomy 28:63-64)

On that day I will utterly hide My face because of all the evil that they have done in turning to alien gods (or masters) (Deuteronomy 31:18 and 32:20-21)

For they are all greedy for profit, from smallest to the greatest, from prophet to priest. They all act falsely. They attempt to heal My people’s wounds without efforts, saying “Peace, Peace” but there is no peace. (Jeremiah 6:13-14 repeated again in 8:11)

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God rejects rituals - sacrifices, being a replacement of the following God’s laws in daily life:

It is the fruit of their own plans, for they did not listen to My word and they rejected My teachings. Why do I need frankincense that comes from Sheba or fragrant cane from distant countries? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable and your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me. (Jeremiah 6:19-20)

I did not speak to your ancestors or command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices when I took them out of the land of Egypt. Rather, I commanded them: Obey Me and I will be your God and you will be My people. Carefully follow the path I commanded you, so things go well for you. (Jeremiah 7:22-23)

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On Jewish mainstream religion going astray from God:

How can you say: ” We are wise and God’s teaching is with us”? Indeed, the pen has labored in vain and scribes labor in vain. (Jeremiah 8:8)

And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices (rituals), as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. (1st Samuel 15:22-23)

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Jewish Meditation:

Be in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah (Psalms 4:4)

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to contemplate the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. (Psalms 27:4)

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. (Psalms 63:6)

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. (Psalms 119:2)

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. (Psalms 119:27)

I remember the days of old, I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. (Psalms 143:5)

Meditation on the text of Torah:

Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well. (Joshua 1:8)

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