The Promise

by Chaim Potok

“The Master of the Universe has so created the world that everything that can be good can also be evil. It is mankind that makes a thing good or evil,

“Almost everything of importance that a person does is a gamble, isn’t it? Every crucial decision is a gamble.” He smiled wryly and was silent again, his gray eyes turned inward. Then he shook his head slowly and came back from wherever he had been. “All