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I learned early on that ‘rabbi’ means teacher, not priest.

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George Steiner

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Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

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My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

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April 29, 2024

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

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April 29, 2024

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

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