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The Idra Zuta opens not with serenity but with fear. Rabbi Shimon worried that after his death the world would take without understanding and not survive.
Elijah never died. The Tikkunei Zohar says the reason is not his power or zeal but one quality: he caused righteousness to multiply in other people.
The rabbis opened Deuteronomy and found not a promise of long life but a four-stage map ending where the new sky never wears out.
A lone Sabbath traveler is guarded by a bear while his companions die; a pious cow refuses to plow for a new master on the holy day.
