"To a person endowed with prophetic sight, everyone else appears blind; to a person whose ear perceivesGod's voice, everyone else appears deaf....The prophet hates the approximate, he shuns the middle of the road. Man must live on the summit to avoid the abyss. The prophet's word is a scream in the night. While the world is at ease and asleep, the prophet feels the blast from heaven...The prophet is human, yet he employs notes one octave too high for our ears...Often his words begin to burn where conscience ends." Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets