Dovid Bashevkin: My Dating Story - On Religious and & Romantic Commitment [Romance & Commitment 1/5]
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Solitude - A Philosophical Encounter by Philip Kotch
I was more forlorn than anxious. Everyone else was preparing for the festival of freedom. I prepared for an axilic hell. Solitude can minimize such intrusive self-consciousness by reducing the immediate demands of experiencing ourselves as the object of another person's thoughts and actions. This night was different because I was finally asking different questions. The hour into my seder, my solitude grew more comfortable and natural. For moments I even forgot I was alone. And God took us out of Egypt like it writes in the hagada, not through an angel and not through a sorrow but the holy one himself. My lonely redemption felt more natural. Who knows one? I looked around. I
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