" 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