Quote of the day
It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Gershom Scholem

Born: December 5, 1897
Died: February 20, 1982 (aged 84)
Bio: Gerhard Scholem who, after his immigration from Germany to Israel, changed his name to Gershom Scholem, was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian.
Known for:
- Major trends in Jewish mysticism (1941)
- From Berlin to Jerusalem (1980)
- Walter benjamin (1975)
- On the Kabbalah and its symbolism (1965)