"Gentiles also live in poverty, they also have to worry about demons and evil spirits, but the world around them is the one they're meant to be in. Oylem Haze, 'this world', is their world." (source)

"The books of Martin Buber, and especially his seminal work 'I-and-Thou', allow us, it seems to me, to distinguish with better precision between Olam Haze and Olam Haba, using criteria which are meaningful to the individual and communal life of any educated reader, be (s)he Christian or Jew, religious or secular or even an agnostic." (source)