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Probably the most famous passage in the history of Jewish mysticism: “Four men entered the orchard — Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, the Other, and Rabbi Akiva....Ben Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma looked and went insane; the Other chopped down the saplings; Akiva entered in peace and departed in peace.”

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