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"Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature."
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Joseph H. Hertz"Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine — even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish."
Joseph Herman Hertz was a British Rabbi and biblical scholar. He held the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the Holocaust.
"Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature."
"Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden."
"Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it — nothing superfluous, nothing lacking — a harmony."
"Mans most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker."
"Not indolence but congenial work is mans Divinely allotted portion."
"Men of all lands and climes are brothers."