Meir Soloveichik

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.