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No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. He who loved himself became great by virtue of himself, and he who loved other men became great by his devotedness, but he who loved God became the greatest of all. Everyone shall be remembered, but everyone became great in proportion to his expectancy. One became great by expecting the possible, another by expecting the eternal; but he who expected the impossible became the greatest of all. Everyone shall be remembered, but everyone was great wholly in proportion to the magnitude of that with which he struggled. For he who struggled with the world became great by conquering the world, and he who struggled with himself became great by conquering himself, but he who struggled with God became the greatest of all. Thus did they struggle in the world, man against man, one against thousands, but he who struggled with God was the greatest of all. Thus did they struggle on earth: there was one who conquered everything by his power, and there was one who conquered God by his powerlessness. There was one who relied upon himself and gained everything; there was one who in the security of his own strength sacrificed everything; but the one who believed God was the greatest of all. There was one who was great by virtue of his power, and one who was great by virtue of his hope, and one who was great by virtue of his love, but Abraham was the greatest of all, great by that power whose strength is powerlessness, great by that wisdom which is foolishness, great by that hope whose form is madness, great by the love that is hatred to oneself. ↗
When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude. ↗
[F]or me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm I bear the Auschwitz number; it reads more briefly than the Pentateuch or the Talmud and yet provides more thorough information. It is also more binding than basic formulas of Jewish existence. If to myself and the world, including the religious and nationally minded Jews, who do not regard me as one of their own, I say: I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number. ↗
PESAN SEORANG AYAH KEPADA ANAK LELAKI: Kau harus berani mengatakan "tidak" untuk yang salah dan "ya" untuk yang benar. Kau harus melindungi martabat rumahmu dengan menjaga saudara-saudara perempuanmu dan ibumu. Kau harus berani melindungi yang tertindas. Dan jika kau berkeluarga nanti, kau sudah mati sebagai lelaki, tapi kau berganti menjadi suami dan ayah. Kau harus selalu pulang ke rumah dan mengabdi kepada istri dan anak-anakmu. Kau harus bekerja dan menafkahi mereka. Kau harus jadi ayah dan suami yang bisa menjaga kehormatan mereka. ↗
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- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time! ↗
