« I was once taught that "understanding" in the Hebrew sense of the word meant "tasting" "to experience". Knowledge, in Hebrew culture, diverges from a certain intellectualism, a legacy of the Greek world that you know much better than I do. For Jews, to know each other is to immerse yourself in one's own history to give it meaning, meaning, experiment. »

« There is an obligatory addiction: I depend on my baker, my milkman; I depend on the one who ties me my shoes, as well as my teacher who teaches philosophy. This allows everyone to find their place while aiming for the collective interest. Our society is thus organized with its sharing of stains. But psychological or emotional dependence appears quite different. It generates tension. The fear of losing, the fear of hurting, the fear of being repelled by the friend, or rather by the one on whom I depend, is actually a dangerous poison. He uses the other, reduces it to the rank of means to fill a void, means to fill my loneliness. We cling to each other to escape ourselves »

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