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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
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We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye?...I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.
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I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views. Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
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…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future.
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Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
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A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
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Chaim Potok
Born:
February 17, 1929
Died:
July 23, 2002
(aged 73)
Bio:
Chaim Potok was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, which was listed on The New York Times' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies.
Known for:
The Chosen (1967)
My Name Is Asher Lev (1972)
The Gift of Asher Lev (1990)
The Promise (1969)
Davita's Harp (1985)
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