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"Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas."
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Ich heise, je m'appelle, I am.... Karel Teifer, bearded teenager born either forty or two thousand-five hundred years too late. Current obsessions of mine are Judaism, the Stonhenge Brotherhood, my brilliantly wonderful girlfriend, orgones, and this nagging case of Bohemophilia that just won't quit.

Shout out to all my WWC buddies!

"I have been a stranger in a strange land"
-Moshe Rabeinu

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"Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know."
- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers

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"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"

"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it."
-Hillel the Elder

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"If you believe breaking is possible, believe fixing is possible."

"One must never be old, neither an old saint nor an old follower. Being elderly is a vice, a man must always renew, begins and begins anew."

"Always remember: happiness is not a side matter in your spiritual journey - it is essential."

"Today you feel uplifted. Do not let yesterday and tommorow to bring you down."
-Rebbe Nachman of Bratzlav

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"Teach your tongue to say "I do not know" and you will progress."

"Sleepers, awake from your sleep! Slumberers, rouse yourselves from your slumber! Search your deeds and return to Teshuvah and remember your Creator. Those forgfetters of the truth in the vanities of time and those who stray all their year in vanity and emptiness which can neither help nor save- look to your souls, better your ways and deeds. Let each one of you abandon your evil way and your thoughts which are not good."
- Maimonides

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"I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand."

"A Jew who sheds his faith along the way, or who even picks up a different one, is still a Jew."
-Albert Einstein

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"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table"
-Eli Wiesel

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"Nobody believed Noah. But Abraham, some say, convinced most of his generation.
Noah talked as someone who followed a tradition of the past. Abraham described how he had discovered God on his own."

"Deeper than the wisdom to create is the wisdom to repair.
And so, God built failure into His world, so that He could give Man His deepest wisdom. To repair."
-Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, The Chabad Rebbe

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Rabbi Zusha used to say: "When I die and come before the heavenly court, if they ask me, 'Zusha, why were you not Abraham?' I'll say that I didn't have Abraham's intellectual abilities. If they say, 'Why were you not Moses?' I'll say I didn't have Moses' leadership abilities. For every such question, I'll have an answer. But if they say, 'Zusha, why were you not Zusha?' for that, I'll have no answer."

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"God's world is great and holy. Among the holy lands in the world is the Holy Land of Israel. In the Land of Israel the holiest city is Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the holiest place was the Temple, and in the Temple the holiest spot was the holy of holies.
There are seventy peoples in the world. Among these holy peoples is the people of Israel. The holiest of the people of Israel is the tribe of Levi. In the tribe of Levi the holiest are the priests. Among the priests the holiest was the high priest.
There are 354 days in the year. Among these the holidays are holy. Higher than these is the holiness of the Sabbath. Among the Sabbaths the holiest is the Day of Atonement, the Sabbath of Sabbaths.
There are seventy languages in the world. Among the holy languages is the holy language of Hebrew. Holier than all else in this language is the holy Torah, and in the Torah the holiest part is the Shema. In the Shema the holiest of all words is the Name of God.

And once during the year, at a certain hour, these four supreme sanctaties of the world were joined with one another. That was on the Day of Atonement when the high priest would enter the holy of holies and there utter the Name of God. And because this hour was beyond measure holy and awesome, it was the time of utmost peril not only for the high priest but for the whole of Israel. For if, in this hour, there had, God forbid, entered the mind of the high priest a false or sinful thought, the entire world would have been destroyed.

Every spot where a man raises his eyes to heaven is a holy of holies. Every man, having been created by God in His own image and likeness, is a high priest. Every day of a man's life is a Day of Atonement, and every word that a man speaks with sincerity is the Name of the Lord"

-The Dybbuk

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