Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Opposites: Attributed to the Kotzker Rebbe

This quotation is from Rabbi Steinsaltz's commentary on the Tanya.

There is nothing straighter than a bent staircase, nothing blacker than a white kittel [a robe worn on ceremonial occasions such as Yom Kippur and the Passover Seder, and also for marriage and burial], and nothing more complete than a broken heart.

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