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The Sotah woman is estranged from her husband, like the Jewish people during our long exile.
The Talmud quotes Rav Yosef who said about Shavuot: “If not for this day, how many Yosefs would wander the market?”
Learn an essay of the Rebbe in the original Yiddish with side-by-side translation
When a person is uprooted from his habitual environment... there come to light certain traits of his inner character as they are in their purity, undistorted by the expectations of society. Often, these traits reveal the hidden good in this person, of which perhaps even he himself had been unaware, because they were hidden under the layers of “manners” and social conventions. Fortunate is the person who does not allow these traits to disappear when he subsequently settles down and finds tranquility.
— From a 1944 letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, recalling his days as a refugee in Vichy France