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Time-servers are the cowering slaves of slaves,
Alone on earth, who serves the Lord is free,
Each soul shall win the gift that it most craves;
Seek God, my soul — God shall your portion be!

— Judah Halevi

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This means that Jerusalem can only be rebuilt when Israel yearns for it to such an extent that they embrace her stones and dust.

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The pious man is nothing but a prince who is obeyed by his senses, and by his mental as well as his physical faculties

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Divine Providence only gives man as much as he is prepared to receive; if his receptive capacity be small, he obtains little, and much if it be great.

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According to our view a servant of God is not one who detaches himself from the world, lest he be a burden to it, and it to him; or hates life, which is one of God's bounties granted to him.

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Thy way of thinking is indeed pleasing to the Creator, but not thy way of acting

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