Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
I. L. PeretzThe Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
I. L. Peretz