"You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it....You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to."

Listening Pain Silence

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About Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok was an American author and rabbi known for novels about Jewish identity and tradition in modern life. His best-known works include The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. Potok's fiction became widely read in both literary and religious communities.

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