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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and a fake?” And th...more

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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with mem...more

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I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing i...more

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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

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Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am con...more