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Born to Kvetch
Chapter 13: It Should Happen to You
DEATH IN YIDDISH

Born to Kvetch extract:

Trust classical Judaism to link sex and death in an entirely novel way two millennia before the development of psychoanalysis. The Talmudic description of the malekh ha-moves—the Angel of Death—occurs in the middle of a set of instructions on how to avoid getting an erection in public.

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