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Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. –Moshe ibn Ezra, “Shirat Yisrael” As cited in “Jewish Wisdom” by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.

A Mormon acquaintance once pushed Mark Twain into an argument on the issue of polygamy. After long and tedious expositions justifying the practice, the Mormon demanded that Twain cite any passage of scripture expressly forbidding polygamy. “Nothing easier,” Twain replied. “No man can serve two masters.”

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. –Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob: At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports of them…
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