"There is a teaching that when a person awakes in the morning, he must quickly think of the first and second letters of the alphabet.
The first, Aleph, is like the Aramaic Aluf, which means learn.
The second, Bet, stands for the number two.
That is, we are to learn and remember that there are two worlds, and this world -- what is it but suffering and certain death? The best we can hope for is an easy exit." -Yaakov to Herbert Weiner, Midstream, 1967
There is a universe above and beyond us. Our suffering is eased when we remember this.
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