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Og ate at Abraham's table and left no name in the joy. Jobs three friends came to a house of ash, kept their names, and Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) lost.

Prophets beat on the closed chamber and cried for open lips. Below, the wicked laughed in a smiling hour, and Israel could not yet thank with a whole heart.

The room smelled of vinegar cloths and a lamp burned too long. Everyone around Eliezer's bed was weeping. One face in the circle looked almost glad.

The chains cut both brothers' wrists. They told the emperor they were sinners, not righteous men owed a furnace miracle. A guard laughed once, then stopped.

Isaac feared he had blessed the wrong son. Then Esau stood in the doorway wailing that Jacob had once bought his birthright with a bowl of lentils.

He arrived expecting the fire of Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) and was ordered back into a body instead, stripped to his Nefesh, the rest of him left.