"Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?'""
— Martin Buber

January 1, 1970

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Tales of the Hasidim (1947), 1991 Ebook edition, p.251, as quoted in Jewish Currents.