Quote of the Month

"And what’s a Musarnik?" Hannah asked.
"A Musarnik?" The visitor wrinkled his brow and hugged the empty tea glass with his fingers. "A Musarnik is a man who lives the way he thinks he should live."
"Every man lives that way," Slava retorted, and saw a furtive spark flaming in the scholar’s eyes.
His deep glance floated up from an umber distance and his words were measured: "On the contrary! People always complain that they’ve never really understood how to live. But the truth is, they don’t live according to what they understand to be right."

(Chaim Grade, The Yeshiva)