“…when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is God, neither death nor disappearance will discourage you”

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Apparently, when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is God, neither death nor disappearance will discourage you. His presence is proof; his non-presence is proof; and non-presence can be conjured into presence by wishing it to be so.

Adam Gopnik, “The Big Reveal”, The New Yorker (5 March 2012), 79.

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