Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past. Dara Horn Read Quote
The books are like children in that having written one doesn’t make writing the next one any easier, because it’s a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it. Dara Horn Read Quote
