“It is not the man who knows the Torah but the man who lives in it … that stands in the highest place,” wrote Buber in The Origin and Meaning of Hasidism. And anyone can live in Torah.
Chaim Potok, “Foreword,” in Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, Schocken Books, 1991/1947, 7-16, 10.
Matters of Interpretation 