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Lonely sits the city ...
There’s a seemingly strange story in the Talmud, which we’ll discuss tomorrow, in which during the siege on Jerusalem, a wealthy woman dies from stepping in dung. For all the years that I’ve read that story, much of which is harrowing, the part about her stepping in dung and dying has struck me as odd, as less profound than the rest of the story. After all, people don’t die from stepping in dung.
This year, though, I think that I finally understand the story. She didn’t die from stepping in dung; she died because her broken heart couldn’t take one more thing going wrong. Tomorrow, we’ll look…
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