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...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...
What is the use of traditional miracles now? Perhaps, as Elie Wiesel once suggested, people need reassurance that miracles are still possible, even for them: the dreariest fate may be reversed. The miracle is antidote to the despair that arises from sheer inevitability. The disintegration of Soviet communism, said to have been foretold at Fatima, has had a surreal quality of the miraculous reversal about...
Aspects of the Modern History of the Jews of Hungary--a conference with Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace laureate. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Faculty Club library. For more information call...
...defense that the attorney is ill advised. His accounts of anti- Semitism in Europe and the Middle East are little more than a catalog borrowed from more capable historians. And his preening modesty belongs in a textbook of self-caricature: "Several years ago, Elie Wiesel flattered me by publicly stating that 'if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different.' Generous as the assessment is, it is an obvious exaggeration...
...undesirable, is necessary -- essential to maintaining the vitality of civilization. That suggests a refinement of an old argument favored by Romantics and 19th century anarchists like Bakunin, who said, "The urge for destruction is also a creative urge." It is not an argument I would try out on Elie Wiesel or on the mother of a political prisoner disappeared by the Argentine authorities...