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Daily Quotes

In the third month following the children of Israel’s exodus from the land of Egypt, that same day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai . . . and there Israel camped opposite the mountain.
— Exodus 19:1–2
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Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole.

Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’...