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A widow's prayer skips the usual gates of heaven. God hears her voice at once, and Ben Sira warns that wealth without character only deepens disgrace.
Resh Lakish's son reads the double tithe as a promise. Grapes and olives left on the vine become the poor man's open window of heaven.
There are ears on the road and ears in the wall, Rabbi Levi said. David wrote Psalm 7 afterward, pleading that his prayer be counted an unwitting sin.
Days after the burial, Joshua still would not rise from the dust. God spoke into it. Moses died for Me too, He said, and Joshua lifted his head.
