Without Being And Remaining Oneself, There Is

Everyone Has In Him Something Precious That Is In No One Else.

To Begin With Oneself But Not To End With Onself. To Start From Oneself But Not To Aim At Oneself.

God Made So Many Different Kinds Of People; Why Would God Allow Only One Way To Worship?

A Story Must Be Told In Such A Way That It Constitutes Help In Itself. My Grandfather Was Lame. Once They Asked Him To Tell A Story About His Teacher. And He Related How The Holy Baal Shem Used To Hop And Dance While He Prayed. My Grandfather Rose As He Spoke, And He Was So Swept Away By His Story That He Himself Began To Hop And Dance To Show How The Master Had Done. From That Hour He Was Cured Of His Lameness. That's How To Tell A Story.

The Biblical Passage Which Says Of Abraham And The Three Visiting Angels: "and He Stood Over Them Under The Tree And They Did Eat" Is Interpreted By Rabbi Zusya To The Effect That Man Stands Above The Angels, Because He Knows Something Unknown To Them, Namely, That Eating May Be Hallowed By The Eater's Intention.... Any Natural Act, If Hallowed, Leads To God, And Nature Needs Man For What No Angel Can Perform On It, Namely, Its Hallowing.