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גלגל חוזר בעולם. כשם שהבעיות קיימות ועומדות, כך גם המתיחות קיימת ועומדת. הפילוגים והניגודים שבין שני אבות העולם נמשכו והלכו בכל הדורות, אלא שפעמים אנו מוצאים שיטות שיטות, כל אחת עקבית בדרך הילוכה, ופעמים שני המדורות עמדו זה על יד זה, זה בתוך זה, בשיטה אחת. פעמים נבלעת אחת בחברתה ופעמים נצטרפה זו לזו, ודומה, ששתי תפיסות עולם, הצוררות זו לזו יכולות לדור בכפיפה אחת, בלב אחד.
Sometimes a sentence can be understood only if read at the right tempo. My sentences are all supposed to be read slowly.
L. Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, translated by P Winch, The University of Chicago Press, p 57e.
Compare to S Dresner's comment in the intro. to "I Asked For Wonder":
Heschel's writing is an embarrassment of riches. So compelling are his sentences that a paragraph literally chokes from wealth. One reader, overwhelmed by this plenty, suggested studying Heschel like a page of the Talmud, that is, weighing with care each sentence, each phrase, each word.
Samuel Dresner, I Asked For Wonder, The Crossroad Publishing Company, p.16
" Religion itself, no matter how profound and sublime it may be, is, in the last analysis, only a vessel intended to contain the absolute - the vestment so to speak, of the absolute. And it is necessary to know how to distunguish the sacred treasure from the vessel which contains it; otherwise one risks fall into idolatry.
Lev Shestov ( Russian religious philosopher, 1866 - 1938)"
M Rosen The Quest for Authenticity The Thought of Reb Simhah Bunim ( "The Quest" ), Urim Publications, p. 13, the above quote is the first part of the epigraph Rosen places at the beginning of his Introduction to "The Quest". Bli neder tommorow "will come" the 2nd part
