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A Jew waits for Messiah to come and redeem the world from fear and pain, from the cataclysmic conflicts between rich and poor. All shall enjoy the earth. This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals?

— Isaac Leib Peretz

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It is a key to open a heaven after death and not a key with which to force open the portals of this life.

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Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

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