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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz : ” The question of our life.”

A famous poem by Abraham Ibn Ezra says:

 

“The past is gone /

the future – not here yet; /

the present – is like a blink of an eye; /

whence, then, our worries?”.

 

This poem can, perhaps, be twisted as follows: if “the past is gone, the future is not here yet, and the present is like a blink of an eye” – “whence, then, our life?”.

This is not a trivial question: it is a life question, the question of our life.

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz