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Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes

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The Divine Presence Can't Dwell Among Those Plagued by Sadness

i in a strange way, the poem says at the end that, you know, the sheva caters for souls, but also bodies. The class for the next morning was going to look at why the divine presence cannot dwell among those plagued by sadness. Here's a distressed student hiding in a closet surrounded by black sports coats because of sadness that he can't cope with. And perhaps the class learned how to pray that the divine presence, that god, could Dwell Among Those Pleasurable By Sadness.

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