Ezra Furman Quotes

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

Ezra Furman

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• Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • I Think
  • Judaism
  • Distinct