Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

by Deborah Feldman

In the physics of imagination, this is the rule: a child can only accept a just world.

Perhaps there are no plagues, only the fickleness of nature. Perhaps there are no consequences, just ugliness. Maybe punishment is something that only comes from people, not from God.

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.