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Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
8 quotes
“Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in T'he Season of the Witch : Le Couer Dechire (2008) by Etienne De Mendes, p. 545
“When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face — that is idol worship!”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters (1948) by Martin Buber as translated by Olga Marx
“If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters (1948) by Martin Buber as translated by Olga Marx
“Everything must be done Lesheim Shamayim (for the sake of Heaven), even [actions done] Lesheim Shamayim.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is only where you let Him in.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Innerspace : Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy (1990), by Aryeh Kaplan, p. 160; This expression is said to have originated when he was five years old and asked his father "Where is God?" to…
“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Leaping Souls : Rabbi Menachem Mendel And The Spirit Of Kotzk (1993) by Chaim Feinberg
“All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, and all that is published should not be read.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) first seen 1650 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Triumph of Survival : The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1995 (1993) by Berel Wein, p. 96
“People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Big Little Book of Jewish Wit & Wisdom (2000) by Sally Ann Berk, p. 73