“Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.”

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5

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Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907–1972

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