“No matter how fine, noble, and gifted one may be, he cannot command respect or be appreciated by others if he has not succeeded in realizing his talents and communicating his message to society through the medium of the creative majestic gesture.”
R’ Soloveitchik, on Adam I, in The Lonely Man of Faith
“…Freud, in a letter to his niece, wrote that it was the very absence of the Temple that liberated Judaism. Remembrance, he felt, had freed itself at last from the tainted material world.”
@
nybooks, last part of Colin Thubron’s review of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s
Jerusalem: The Biography
