Hasidism Quotes

“My father, an enlightened spirit, believed in man.
My grandfather, a fervent Hasid, believed in God.
The one taught me to speak, the other to sing.
Both loved stories.
And when I tell mine, I hear their voices.
Whispering from beyond the silenced storm, they are what links the survivor to their memory.”
― Elie Wiesel, Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters

“The Hasidim asserted that God could be approached through the heart far more than through the mind and that singing and dancing were appropriate means of worship.”
― Lynn Davidman, Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism

“If the Talmud was built on the purported word of God, that word struck you as suspiciously human, with ambiguities and layers of meaning and all the arbitrariness of human language. The very idea of faith suggested something man-made--the idea that we must submit to conviction, rather than simply behold the universe in its natural order.”
― Shulem Deen, All Who Go Do Not Return