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The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains—eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.

— Isaac Leib Peretz

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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

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

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

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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