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“If I am here, everyone is here.   If I am not here, who is here?”  - Sukkah 53b           
This statement sounds cute but it is one of the most profound ideas from one of the most erudite scholars of all time.  If we are present, everything necessary in the world is with us.  Yet, when we are physically present but mentally absent, no one is there.

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