Through the Thou a person becomes I.

God said to Abraham: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." God says to man: "First, get you out of your country, that means the dimness you have inflicted on yourself. Then out of your birthplace, that means out of the dimness your mother inflicted on you. After that, out of the house of your father, that means out of the dimness your father inflicted on you. Only then will you be able to go to the land that I will show you"

All actual life is encounter.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman