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In 1944, a young Jewish couple was deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp synonymous with industrialized murder. Upon arrival, the wife encountered Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous “Angel of Death.” Against

Within the sprawling library of Jewish mysticism, few puzzles are as compact—and as consequential—as the two Hebrew letters Beit-Lamed (ב״ל). A growing circle of scholars is revisiting a 16th-century teaching from Rabbi