“Do the thirteen rules of your Maimonides keep me from heaven?” he asked one day. “Oh no!” the Jew cried eagerly. “While he was living here in Acre, Maimonides said plainly, ‘God is near to everyone who turns to Him. He is found by anyone who seeks Him and turns not aside.’ ” “You are more generous than we,” Volkmar replied. “Maimonides also said, in a letter to a man much like you—a non-Jew who loved God—that this man was as much the charge of God as any Jew. He wrote, ‘If our descent is from Abraham, your descent is from God Himself.’
do you want to be a rabbi when you grow up or is it just that you want to be well educated and wise?
