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- One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
- Yet another last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the train, and, now, the last…
- My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As…
- Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should…
- No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment…
- Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need…
- Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
- Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment…
- From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes…
- Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A…
- Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
- Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
- Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart.…
- There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the…
- It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
- I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
- In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man,…
- I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second,…
- One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not…
- From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left…
- There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great…
- Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
- And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise.…
- When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary.…
- Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
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