Lo tov heyot adam levado: It is not good for man to be alone

by Rabbi Adam Roffman

Remember Eleanor Rigby?
Eleanor Rigby who picked up the rice in a church where a wedding has been.
She lived in a dream.
She waited at her window, wearing a face
That she kept in a jar by the door?
But who was it for?
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If you remember Eleanor Rigby, you probably also remember Father MacKenzie.

Who sat writing the words
To a sermon that no one will hear
Because no one comes near.
We saw him working,
Darning his socks
In the night when nobody’s there.
What did he care?

​It was these two figures that sprang from Paul McCartney’s imagination that provoked him to ask this profound question in 1966:  All the lonely people…where do they all come from? 

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