In the coming world they will not ask me, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’
Rabbi Meshullam Zusya of Hanipol (1718–1800) Hassidic teacher
(Attributed)
In Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters, "Zusya of Hanipol" [tr. Marx (1947)]
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Zusya of Hanipol
People do wrong because they don’t have the strength to do right.
Rabbi Meshullam Zusya of Hanipol (1718–1800) Hassidic teacher
(Attributed)