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  1. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    May the best of the past be the worst of the future." Keep everything always off balance. No boundaries. No repetition. The opposite of what the Rebbe wants. The Rebbe seeks fixed boundaries, perfect balance, eternal repetition. Asher Lev caught between the two.
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  2. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    Without the future there is no present," my father is saying. "Without the future there can be no hope for redemption, and without hope for redemption there is nothing. A man must plan for the future." Max smiles politely. That is the sort of talk, he once told me, he used to get from his own father. "They talk about redeeming the world for the future," Max said. "I have more modest goals. I wish only to redeem a canvas for today.
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  3. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. If
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  4. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    I wish that your journey will be to a light not only for yourself but for all of us. I wish that it will be a journey for the sake of heaven. I give you my blessing, Asher Lev.
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  5. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said that even the Master of the Universe needs humankind in order truly to complete the Creation. Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. An artist, a Rebbe, everyone.
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  6. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    The two extremes of secular life. Stoic acceptance and gay defiance in the face of-nothing; in the face of indifference, boiling violence, inexorable chaos; in the face of-the Other Side. Two hundred years of this. Enough. Jews must return to Torah. The world must return to God. There must be a center to human life or, God forbid, there will be no human life left on this planet. A man may not live alone.
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  7. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    She would sit with her eyes wide open, staring, as if a lever had been pulled inside her, sealing off her feelings. Her face sagged; the light went out of her eyes. I knew those moments: sudden retreats into herself as she thought of my father journeying for the Rebbe. She looked old, limp, doll-like: all her features intact but the life gone from them."
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  8. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    All a man has in the world is the now, the day and the hour where he is, because tomorrow is an entirely different world.
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  9. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
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  10. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    It's nice to be able to retire. Comforting." "You think so?" he said. "Isn't it?" "No," he said. "Endings are never nice.
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  11. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    We cannot build our lives around sickness, Asher. We must have faith in the Master of the Universe.
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  12. Chaim Potok _ The Gift of Asher Lev

    Basically it's none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we're on the trail of the law of our own growth.
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