Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.