Religion
Merkin was a devoutly Orthodox Jew, and regularly attended a shiur (Torah lecture). He was highly active in his synagogue.
Merkin died at age 91, New York City of congestive heart failure. He is the father of noted businessman and philanthropist J. Ezra Merkin and of writer and critic Daphne Merkin.
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“In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunate and are rightly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give it by feeling of the heart—without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)