I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
From Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
When I was young I lost everything.
Some stories are true that never happened.
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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 result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
6 perspectives
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