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The Man Who Mistook His Wife's Foot for His Own


The Talmud rules that "A man's wife is as his own body." Rabbi Aryeh Levine (d. 1969), known as "the Tzaddik of Jerusalem," exemplified this ideal. On one occasion, when accompanying his wife to a Jerusalem clinic, he explained to the physician: "Doctor, my wife's foot is hurting us."

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Sages & Mystics
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The Loan
The Gift
Tainted Soup
A Prerequisite for a Blessing
A Tzaddik’s Tear
A Purim Secret
The Man Who Mistook His Wife's Foot for His Own
Shlomo’s Scales
The Problem
A Guest, a Fish, and a Prayer
The Iron Necklace
The Wonder Horse
The Oath
The Rooster That Did Not Crow
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