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Rabbi Beroka asked who in the roaring market would inherit the World to Come. Elijah's hand rose toward a man in Roman clothes.
Johanan carried three loaves down the road and broke them for a starving crow and a starving dog. He paid a ransom to put a doomed fish back in the sea.
The worst king's soul meets a sword that swings between fire and ice, then takes the silver ceiling of paradise's second chamber for the penitent.
Nuriel filled the path, three hundred parasangs of fire and water. Moses wanted a number. The prince of the garden had none.
Deep in Paradise a luminous tree blossoms with unborn souls, and one ripe soul loosens from its branch to fall toward the world it will ache to leave.
Enoch had stood before God's face, and no human eye could survive what that did to him. So an angel white as snow pressed ice into his skin.
