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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “I alone know my individual recognition of God’s greatness.”

A great man once said that in the verse “I know that God is great,” the word I should be understood as an emphasis:

I alone know how great God is to me; only I know, and nobody else can.

Not that I am greater or lesser than anyone else, just that I am different. And because I am different, I alone know

my individual recognition of God’s greatness.

—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz