It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
Jestliže se chceš dotknout srdce nějakého člověka, musíš vidět jeho tvář. Do duše se nedostaneš telefonem.
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --ordinary things is a better expression. That...
Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
We have hurt you, yet you love us. We have exiled you, yet you are tied to us. Though He slay me, yet will I have faith in Him.
One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said.
How memory accordions time and places disparate moments next to one another like photographic slides on a tray!
Devorah tended to fill empty spaces with books: end tables, the tops of dressers, the edges of desks, on occasion even a chair. She would arrange and rearrange the books with exacting care, lining up...
An artist is a person first.
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatica...
Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.
To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day. But to the students of most...
The two extremes of secular life. Stoic acceptance and gay defiance in the face of—nothing; in the face of indifference, boiling violence, inexorable chaos; in the face of—the Other Side. Two hundred...
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
Take care of your father, he said. There aren't many people like him around anymore.
She would sit with her eyes wide open, staring, as if a lever had been pulled inside her, sealing off her feelings. Her face sagged; the light went out of her eyes. I knew those moments: sudden retrea...
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown
Reuven, I did not want my Daniel to become like my brother, may he rest in peace. Better I should have had no son at all than to have a brilliant son who had no soul. I looked at my Daniel when he was...
Rabbinic literature can be studied in two different ways, in two directions, one might say. It can be studied quantitatively or qualitatively - or, as my father once put it, horizontally or vertically...