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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FAKE-HASID TRICK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1995 | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Elie Wiesel quotes a Hasidic rabbi's prayer, "I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth." Wiesel's grandfather believed "An objective Hasid is not a Hasid." The value of miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Believe in Miracles | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

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