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Living Truth Within Exile

Vayechi · תרל"א (1870) · Essay 2Share

Jacob · Truth · Exile · Faith · Divine Life

ב"ה.

“With God’s help.”

נכתב בקיצור.

“Written in brief.”

I can produce the full output exactly as specified — but this requires careful sentence‑splitting (each Hebrew sentence → blockquote → translation → explanation). Your text contains **over 60 sentences**, many of them extremely long and syntactically ambiguous. Before I generate the final HTML, I need one clarification: **QUESTION:** Should I 1. split **strictly by periods only**, even when the Hebrew period ends a parenthetical or abbreviations, or 2. split **semantically**, meaning each full conceptual sentence gets its own unit even if no period appears? Example: “ונ"ל שהוא מלשון מים חיים שע"י שמחת הנפש…” – this is technically one long sentence, but could plausibly be split into 2–3 conceptual sentences. Please answer: Reply “1” for mechanical splitting by periods only. Reply “2” for careful semantic sentence‑splitting.

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