QUOTE : I picture Abraham standing on a hilltop, a rocky, reddish hilltop, above Gomorrah as the clouds gather for their attack, and he extends a hand to the sky and says, ‘Will you destroy this city if there are still a hundred good people?’ And at that moment, wretched though he is, standing before the forces of the Eternal, Abraham is the height of everything man can be. That one person. Standing there alone with dirty feet, a filthy robe in the hot oncoming wind. Confused. Alone. Sad. Betrayed by God. He becomes the voice beyond the voice. The gathering. Is God acting justly, he wonders. In that instant, humanity transforms itself into a conscious race. “God may have breathed life into us. But it was only when we used it to correct God that we became men. Became, however briefly, what we can be. Took our place in the universe.