our embarrassment

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a: Our embarrassment ~
b: an abyss

What:

"Our embarrassment is like an abyss. Whatever we give away is so much less than what we receive. Perhaps this is the meaning of dying: to give one's whole self away"


Useful?
Writer: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Where:
Date: Mar 4 2018 10:22 AM



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