Deep in the Babylonian Talmud, heard amid its ancient rustlings and disputings and brain-whorls and coiled insanities, is talk of a very special—perhaps the most special—“wild-beast contest”: an elite show to be laid on by the Creator in the Time to Come. For [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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