"She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. Thatâ€™s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again. And just like that, you die."

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”

Ruth Ozeki

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