Steve

“October 7 marks the alignment, for the worse, of Israel with the diaspora. The two paths of Judaism are now on the same footing and are intersecting. And the material and spiritual Jewish strength that is essential to the survival of real Jews, as I argued in The Genius of Judaism, has revealed its hidden weakness. There is nowhere in the world where Jews are safe; that is the message. No land on this planet is a shelter for Jews; that is what the Event of October 7 proclaims. Never and nowhere will it be possible to say that Jews can live in the world the way the French live in France, the English in England, and the Americans in America—and that will be true until the end of time: such is the obvious truth.”
― Bernard-Henri Lévy, Israel Alone

“Every pathological disturbance, every therapeutic effect, finds its ultimate explanation only when it’s possible to designate the specific living cellular elements involved.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

“Rabbi Yeruham Levovitz (1873–1936): “Woe to a person who is unaware of their shortcomings, because they will not know what to work on. But even greater woe to a person who is unaware of their virtues, because they don’t even know what they have to work with.”
― Shai Held, Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

“The mind’s eye can nowhere find more brilliant splendour and more tenebrous gloom than in man. It cannot set its gaze on anything more fearsome, more complicated, more mysterious and infinite.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables