She concludes again, realizing dimly that she’s repeated the exact answer she gave— Shana? Yehudis?— last year, almost word for word. But so what?
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Three words are written in the margin of her notes: Pause for effect!
She skims the words, eyes only leaving the intent faces of her students for a fraction of a second.
She gives a tiny, uncalled-for grimace, then quickly rearranges her features into a wide smile. “Remember, girls. In the end, those without bitachon will receive the same results anyway…but work so much harder!”
Pause for effect, indeed. As if, when saying this over for the 28th year running, she needs the reminder. If she were giving this shiur in her dreams, she would imbue that last phrase with an introductory two-second silence.
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