Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).