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They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

— Elie Wiesel Night (1960)

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Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

Miracles in mysticism don't occupy such an important place.

An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory.

My commandment is ‘Thou shall not stand idly by.’

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