In Other Words, Judaism Is Not Calvinism.

I Will Go Wherever The Truth Leads Me. It Is Secular Scholarship, Rebbe; It Is Not The Scholarship Of Tradition. In Secular Scholarship There Are No Boundaries And No Permanently Fixed Views.” Lurie, If The Torah Cannot Go Out Into Your World Of Scholarship And Return Stronger, Then We Are All Fools And Charlatans. I Have Faith In The Torah. I Am Not Afraid Of Truth.

A Writer Is A Strange Instrument Of Our Species, A Harp Of Sorts, Fine-tuned To The Dark Contradictions Of Life.

My Name Is Asher Lev... I Am A Traitor, An Apostate, A Self-hater, An Inflicter Of Shame Upon My Family, My Friends, My People; Also, I Am A Mocker Of Ideas Sacred To Christians, A Blasphemous Manipulator Of Modes And Forms Revered By Gentiles For Two Thousand Years.

There Is In My Work A Very Strong Religious Foreground And Background. In The Later Work Some Of That Tends To Diminish, But It's Certainly Present In The Early Work.

If A Person Has A Contribution To Make, He Must Make It In Public. If Learning Is Not Made Public, It Is A Waste.