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Hasidism
“
My father, an enlightened spirit, believed in man.
My grandfather, a fervent Hasid, believed in God.
The one taught me to speak, the other to sing.
Both loved stories.
And when I tell mine, I hear their voices.
Whispering from beyond the silenced storm, they are what links the survivor to their memory.
”
― Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters
― Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters
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If the Talmud was built on the purported word of God, that word struck you as suspiciously human, with ambiguities and layers of meaning and all the arbitrariness of human language. The very idea of faith suggested something man-made--the idea that we must submit to conviction, rather than simply behold the universe in its natural order.
”
― All Who Go Do Not Return
― All Who Go Do Not Return
