Attack With Love

“Akiva ben Joseph was born in the Judean lowlands in 50 C.E. He was illiterate and despised scholarship; he worked herding sheep. Then he fell in love with a rich man’s daughter. She agreed to marry him only when he vowed to devote his life to studying the Torah. So he did. He learned to read along with their son.” Quoted from Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being.