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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai.
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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
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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.
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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
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