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Quotes for the Month of Tishre 5762/September 2001
"The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do
anything about it"
(Albert Einstein)
"Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish said: Whoever shows himself
merciful in circumstances where he should be pitiless,
in the end becomes pitiless when he should be merciful"
(Mirdrash: Kohelet Rabbah, 7:25)
"The fact that evil confronts good
gives man the possibility of victory"
(Yehiel Michael of Zlotshov)