דדליג מאגרא חדא למשמע קדישThe Groom Who Leapt

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He leapt for one Kaddish and was known by it.

Answering 'Amen, yehei shemei rabba' with all one's strength, meaning every limb rather than a loud voice, cools Gehinnom. The Zohar tells that R. Ḥiyya and R. Abba rose at midnight at an inn to study, and the host's daughter held the lamp. R. Abba taught 'a mitzvah is a lamp and Torah is light,' and she wept. Her father explained: he had given her to a young man after seeing him leap from a roof to hear Kaddish with the congregation, and now the groom did not even know grace after meals. The groom came in and began to teach: he was the son of Rav Safra of Babylon, silent two months among scholars. He opened the secrets of grace and the wedding blessings, and the town took him as its rabbi. One mitzvah won him his bride.

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