The path of return is open to all, even for one who never studied and has no knowledge of Judaism.
Let him overcome the inhibitions regarding the strangeness – let him break through the barriers of ignorance and illiteracy – and then the Jewish spark in him will reveal itself in all its splendor and grow into a true fire.
For all are holy seed, members of a holy people, practiced in self-sacrifice and familiar with the encounter with death as with the major questions of life.
In hearts of the learned as well as the unlearned burns a secret fire, a flame of holiness.
Each and every one can see for himself and demonstrate that he indeed is “Israel, through whom I derive glory.”
–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
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