Rav Josef weinte* / And the Rabbi Wept

                                                   ...  But , alack,
You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,
To have them fall no more: you some permit
To second ills with ills, each elder worse,
And make them dread it, to the doer's thrift

* cf Emmanuel Levinas, Die Schäden, die das Feuer verursacht in Vom Sakralen zum Heiligen, Fünf neue Talmud-Lesungen