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But what he loved to do best wasread. In his small apartment, where as awidower he’d lived alone for decades,all the furniture had yielded its orig<strong>in</strong>alfunction to serve as a surface for piles<strong>of</strong> books: gold-leafed Hebrew textsjumbled together with Margaret Atwoodand Milan Kundera. My grandfatherwould sit beneath a halo-shapedfluorescent light at his t<strong>in</strong>y kitchentable, sipp<strong>in</strong>g Lipton tea and snack<strong>in</strong>gon marble cake, a book propped openon the white cotton tablecloth. In hissermons, each a tapestry <strong>of</strong> ancient andhumanist thought, he’d share with hiscongregation the fruits <strong>of</strong> that week’sstudy. He was a shy person who hadtrouble mak<strong>in</strong>g eye contact with theaudience, but he was so bold <strong>in</strong> hisspiritual and <strong>in</strong>tellectual explorationsthat when he spoke the congregationswelled to stand<strong>in</strong>g-room-only.759/929

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