A timely reading for Passover, given what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and so many other peoples (opens in new tab)

From Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron: whensoever you employed those gifts for false and negative ends, and whensoever you had abandoned the desert’s renunciation and your gifts led you to the highest summit, then as a result of that misuse you were and ever shall be hurled back into the desert. Chag Sameach.