PARIS (AP) — Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris at the age of 94, Czech media said Wednesday. Kundera’s renowned novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that was the author’s […]
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Darkness and Lightness of the Soul


Bar Yohai lived within a cave for many years,By leaving it he caused his father-in-law great distress.“Alas that I should see you so,” was Pinhas ben Yair’sreaction. Bar Yohai said: “You should now be troubled less.If I did not look half as weathered, I’d be half as wise!” They then debated just as great Talmudic […]