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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
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Warszawa
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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