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Elie Munk Quotes

d. 1981

Rabbi Elie Munk (15 September 1900 – 5 June 1981) was a French rabbi and author. He was the father-in-law of Immanuel Jakobovitz.

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The modern world, more than in any preceding epoch, feels the necessity to learn anew how to pray.

There are three kinds of forces: the forces of nature, the spiritual and moral ones, and finally those of history and destiny.

The community does not suffer deficiencies. What is lacking in one individual is made up by the other.

A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer.

In the midst of the titanic struggles of ideologies that dominate our age, it is from our prayers that we derive the firmest support for mind and soul.

It is only in the period between adolescence and maturity and not during the earlier stages of development that any organism can unfold its full strength.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elie Munk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.