Only from One who is neither water nor fire can come both the oceans and the stars;
From One who is neither large nor small can come both the blue whale and the gnat;
From One who is neither light nor darkness
can come both the eyes of the hawk and the ears of the bat,
the glistening fierceness in a leopard’s eye,
the tender care of a mighty eagle for her eaglets,
silence and noise,
destruction and renewal,
order and chaos
—all in the same instant, all within a single being.
We must preserve the diversity of our world, and of one another, for in that diversity is expressed the deepest secret of the divine.
— Sichot Kodesh