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In all these years, it never failed to amaze him, this magnificent dappled sea of bone marrow,
She wasn’t physically attracted to Luca, of course. It was the desire to act on his behalf, the fierce and unthinking desire to do for him, even sacrifice herself if necessary. Wasn’t that at the heart of love?
He was convinced that many of the problems in the world stemmed from a tribal, us-versus-them mentality that pitted one group against another: Jews against Christians, Israelis against Arabs, white against black, and countless other divisions.
How does one go on believing in a God-made world that is so deeply flawed? He was having trouble coming up with acceptable answers. At home, away from home, in every home, it seemed the divine light was dimming.
When anything and everything goes, there are no real
If only he could go back and retrieve the paper from the snow before the ink runs and makes the words unintelligible. A name. An address. A clue that might save Luca.
“The Babylonian Talmud says, ‘Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as if he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.’ I
