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"Good and evil are mixed together. And the midbar, the wilderness, represents the elements of destructiveness in each individual... In this sense, the life of the individual is fundamentally a midbar, awaiting the evolutions and integrations of human work."

"To represent G*d is to celebrate His salvation—to celebrate being saved by Him, as well as saving Him. To bear His name, to be His flag, is not simply to be a container of holiness, but to be charged with the future of His Being in the world. It is to live as a recurrent question , acknowledging a lack."

_Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg