Before His Death, Rabbi Zusya

It Pains Me To Speak Of God In The Third Person.

The World Is A Spinning Die, And Everything Turns And Changes: Man Is Turned Into Angel, And Angel Into Man, And The Head Into The Foot, And The Foot Into The Head. Thus All Things Turn And Spin And Change, This Into That, And That Into This, The Topmost To The Undermost, And The Undermost To The Topmost. For At The Root All Is One, And Salvation Inheres In The Change And Return Of Things.

I Shall Teach You The Best Way To Say Torah. You Must Cease To Be Aware Of Yourselves. You Must Be Nothing But An Ear That Hears What The Universe Of The Word Is Constantly Saying Within You. The Moment You Start Hearing What You Yourself Are Saying, You Must Stop.

It Is Usual To Think Of Good And Evil As Two Poles, Two Opposite Directions, The Antithesis Of One Another...we Must Begin By Doing Away With This Convention.

So Long As You "have" Yourself, Have Yourself As An Object, Your Experience Of Man Is Only As Of A Thing Among Things.