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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
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Warszawa
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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