"..There are circumstances when you are torn away like a leaf from a tree and no power can attach you again. The wind carries you from your roots. Th… - Isaac Bashevis Singer

But what about the creatures whose flesh he's carrying there? A few days ago they were alive. They too have souls. They too are God’s children. They were quite possibly made of better material than human beings. Since they were sinless, they were certainly more innocent. But day after day they are ritually sacrificed-angels in the shape of oxen, calves, sheep. I once wanted to become a vegetarian. I wanted everything-and I never got further than wanting.

Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him

Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.