In the coming world they will not ask me, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’

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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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