Poetry Unbound Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes
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Midnight Alarm Reveals Private Crisis
- A student in a yeshiva pulled the basement alarm after hearing his parents planned to end their 19-year marriage before Passover.
- He hid in a closet behind black sports coats while peers and firemen evacuated the building in bathrobes.
Inconvenience Becomes Pastoral Lesson
- The poem shows an external emergency revealing an internal one and forces communal care to reorient around a hurting person.
- Cancelling class becomes a pastoral response that teaches theology as much as it pauses schedule.
Fireman Friend: Alarms Signal Inner Emergencies
- A host recounts a fireman friend's observation that alarms sometimes signal internal emergencies inside people.
- The poem mirrors that truth by showing responders dealing with both the literal alarm and inner human pain.