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A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

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Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.

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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

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Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

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The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

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