When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.


Martin Buber's Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings (ed. Citadel Press, 1947) - ISBN: 9780806515939

Martin Buber Quotes

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as...

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as...

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as...

When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as...