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A spirit must cross a bridge no wider than a thread over Gehinnom, where the dark has weight and the ashes of sinners wait for mercy.
When Moses looked this way and that before striking the taskmaster, the Tikkunei Zohar says he searched for anyone who cared, not for witnesses.
Sha'ar HaGilgulim reads a verse from Samuel as a map of Lurianic patience, no nefesh is discarded before its repair and ascent are complete.
After seven years of famine, Joel told Israel to plant the last grain. The seed came from ant hills, and the covenant held.
The Torah says Enoch pleased God and was taken. Philo of Alexandria read the word pleased as proof the soul keeps living after the body is gone.
A miser dies with an empty ledger, a merchant who fed a blind man is spared, and a false-pious woman is walked through Gehinnom.
