Author - Arthur Kurzweil
"The essence of Shabbat is really a trickle, an infiltration, of the next world into this world"
"The essential aspect of a miracle is its significance"
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: "On Purim we abandon the illusion that we control, or even understand, our world"
"The Jewish response to Haman's story does not call for vengeance"
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: "God is acting off stage"
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: "God wrote the Book of Esther using a pseudonym"
"There are certain hooligans in the religious quarter of Jerusalem who throw stones at other people who also do not have any idea of what the Sabbath means"
"When we dance, we stamp our feet on the earth in order to ascend to heaven"