Sublime

“diminishing

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.

Building Tel Aviv Gymnasium (high school).

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

Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10

One Bielski partisan, Oppenheim, a man in his forties, was a talented locksmith. He came to the forest with his son from Novogródek ghetto.