Demanding more.

I will give an answer from the realm of physics. Once, when I was a nice, honest young man, I was interested in that field. There is something in physics - you have a certain amount of pressure on something, and there is a point at which it can take no more. When you put then times, on hundred times taht pressure on it, something happens. The molecules collapse, and the very nature of the object changes.

In astronomy, you have what is called "white dwarves." These are small stars, the size of the earth, sometimes even smaller. The mass they contain is many times that of the sun. Each cubic centimeter weighs many tons. Why? Because the matter collapsed and became something else; the laws themselves changed.

Elie Weisel

But during one of our conversations, I did ask a question about the Holocaust. I asked, "What did you learn from your Holocaust experience?"

Two things, he replied. The first thing he learned is not to delay when fighting evil. "Fight evil immediately, " he said. "Don't wait. Don't try to convince yourself that it's going to get better."

And the second thing he learned was this: "Don't let other people tell you what you questions should be. Don't let other people's questions become your questions."

I asked him to explain, and he said, "For example, if somebody says to you, 'Why do you wear that beard?' don't feel that you have an obligation to answer that question. It may not be your question. It's somebody else's question. You don't have to justify yourself to others. Don't let other people's questions become your questions. Don't let others force their questions on you."

~Arthur Kurzweil in On the Road with RS

I love the light in Jerusalem.

And I'm not speaking mystically.

marja wanna

"The issue is who is the master and who is the slave. If you are the master, fine. If you are the slave, then you are in trouble no matter what you're the slave of, whether it be coffee, exercise, or Torah study.

So you have to ask yourself, 'Who is the master and who is the slave?' "