Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk, better known as the Kotzker Rebbe (1787–1859) was a Hasidic rabbi and leader.

1787 - January 27, 1859
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!
There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.
Peace without truth is a false peace. — © Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Peace without truth is a false peace.
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!
God dwells where we let God in.
First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
God is only where you let Him in.
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.
One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.
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