I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.