together at last, there's room
There is a secular world and a holy world, secular worlds and holy worlds. These worlds contradict each other. The contradiction, of course, is subjective. In our limited perception we cannot reconcile the sacred and the secular, we cannot harmonize their contradictions. Yet at the pinnacle of the universe they are reconciled, at the site of the holy of holies.
Abraham Isaac Kook (twentieth century), Orot ha-Quodesh
March 27th, 1996
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