"...I have come to learn what Buber concluded when he grew older. When in his youth he was asked which he preferred, Buber thought he preferred books to people. Books are easy to handle, easy to open and to close, to remove or place back on the shelves. Books are manna from heaven, while humans are like hard, brown bread on whose crust he breaks his teeth. but as he grew older, Buber changed his mind.
"I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books; I shall die with another human hand in my own. " "
-Rabbi Harold Shulweis
"I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books; I shall die with another human hand in my own. " "
-Rabbi Harold Shulweis
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