Sublime

“diminishing

From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,

Mordechai Berkowitz, a blacksmith, established a workshop

At ten years old, I was the youngest person by about fifty years.

For Shimen, the “community” is a set of concentric circles beginning with his (dead) family, extending to Gerer Hasidim, and extending further to others committed to the Jewish way of life; the farther out the circle, the less weight it earns in Shimen’s calculus.

“Can a man be a Tzaddik Ha-Dor but live hidden from himself and

Hadar was originally founded on the radical notion that a service that is egalitarian could run as fast as a nonegalitarian service.

He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.