An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionality and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.

— Joseph Telushkin

In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

— Joseph Telushkin

Rabbi Hiya advised his wife, “When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children.” She exclaimed, “You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars].” But Rabbi Hiya replied, “There is a wheel which revolves in this world.” —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b

— Joseph Telushkin

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others." —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulchan Truth (The Code of Jewish Law), Yore Death 255:2

— Joseph Telushkin