Tuesday was the 23rd yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriah, founder of the Bnei Akiva yeshivot, educator, revolutionary, author, Rabbi Kook’s disciple, and Israel Prize laureate. Here are just a few phrases from the great legacy that he left:
* “The commandment of “u’vcharta vachayim” (And you shall choose life’) is not like elections (bechirot) that take place once every few years. Choosing the Torah and commandments is a daily matter.”
* “A land that eats up its…inhabitants (Numbers 13:32) – the land eats those who inhabit it and do nothing in it, who do not act.”
* “Death was given to the world only so that people would know how to live.”
* “A person who asks ‘What is my duty?’ rather than ‘What is my right’ – his world is totally different.”
* “The greatest of all revolutions is the revolution that takes place in the heart.”
* “I think, therefore I am a person. The more I think, the more I find the essence of the person in me.”
* “Man does not fulfill mitzvot. It is the mitzvot that fulfill the man.”
* “The word that I least understand is G-d, and precisely because of this, it explains everything to me.”
