Professor Wiesel begins by retelling and analyzing the Talmudic story of the heathen coming to Shammai and Hillel. We always forget the second part: “now go and study.” At 92Y we always try to fulfill the whole, both parts. And Talmudic argument emphasizes the importance of dialogue, for “wars begin when dialogues end.” Being the year’s fourth lecture, Professor Wiesel reviews the previous ones: Job was right to speak about his suffering; Rabbi Ishmael taught us the art of silence; the Apter Rebbe modeled the all-encompassing virtue of loving one’s fellow Jew. Reading from new publications: The Golem, The Fifth Son, the essay “Changing” from Paroles d'etranger. The purpose of reading is to illustrate what I as a Jew owe our predecessors: Midrash, Hasidism, and even Kabbalah. My generation has been deprived of the faculty to create, but given the ability to recreate.