There is a well-known story about a group of shochtim and rabbis who regularly supervised kashrut at an abattoir. Each day, they entered together, inspected carefully, completed their duties, and left together. Like the others, one rabbi greeted the security guard each day, but his quiet practice went further: each morning and evening, he would faithfully pause for a brief, warm exchange. Day after day, this quiet consistency continued.

One evening, as the supervisors completed their work and prepared to leave, the security guard looked at them with sudden concern.

“One of you is missing,” he said.

The group paused. Surely everyone was there.

But the guard insisted.

“The rabbi who would........

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