"Therefore was one single man created first, Adam, to teach you that if anyone destroys a single soul from the children of Man, Scripture charges him as though he had destroyed the whole Universe -- and whoever rescues a single soul from the children of Man, Scripture credits him as if he had saved a whole Universe."
-- Sanhedren 4:5 of the Mishnah
[via the wonderful epilogue to Lawrence Weschler's A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers]
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
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