Author - Arthur Kurzweil
"If a person learns Torah with no intent of putting his knowledge into practice, our sages teach, he would have been better off had he died in childbirth"
"The Torah is the name of God"
"Like a child who breaks an expensive item whose value he cannot appreciate"
"The need to engage in ferocious battle"
"An illusory frame of reference"
"The soul must train itself in order to be capable of achieving meaningful religious experience"
"Inspiration as the primary source of artistic creativity is no more than an attractive fiction"
"Life is not like the movies"