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Category & Material: Papercut, Cut Paper
Date: 6/2007     Size: 8 x 4 in
Description: This text loosely translates as "It is not for you to complete the work [of repairing the world]. Not up to you to finish it. But neither are you free to desist from it." This phrase comes from Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), which is part of the Mishna, the Jewish oral law.