“The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation – infinite, even? Was Ester’s world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?”
