Spiritual Quote of the Day (Sholom Aleichem, on Not Being ‘Worried About God So Much’)

“I wasn’t worried about God so much. I could come to terms with Him one way or another. What bothered me was people. Why should human beings bring suffering to others and to themselves, when they could all live together in peace and goodwill?”—Yiddish fiction writer and playwright Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a.k.a. Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916), “Schprintze,” in Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem, translated by Julius and Frances Butwin (1983)