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• In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.

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  Israel, Perfect, Evil

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• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

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  Men, Silence, Soul

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

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  Life, May, Littles

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.121, Routledge

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• We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

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  Wicked, World, Praying

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.188, Schocken

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• God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

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  Self, Mystery, Evident

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

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  Light, Space, Empathy

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• Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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• To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

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  Legends, Chronicles, Know How

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• As I actualize, I uncover.

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  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.80, eBookIt.com

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• Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

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  Empathy, Feelings

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.88, eBookIt.com

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• Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

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  Men, Negativity, Return

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.145, eBookIt.com

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• He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.

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  Men, Light, Judging

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• The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

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  Perfection, Matter, Divine

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• Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

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  Destiny, Together, Linked

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• Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164

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  Mean, Glimpse, Addresses

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• Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

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  Religious, Mean, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

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  Fire, Pyramids, Faces

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• I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

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  Kings, War, Fall

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

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  Peace, War, Advice

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• The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.

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  Angel, Men, Feet

  Martin Buber (2013). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.40, Routledge

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• If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

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  Tree, Soul, Rabbi

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• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

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  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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• The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

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  Lying, Men, Doe

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

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  Men, Quality, Peculiar

  Martin Buber (1997). “Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis”, p.142, Syracuse University Press

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• The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

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  Kindness, Historical, Kind

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