The Hindu cycle of rebirth that brings you back until you figure it out. Tamir contrasts the comfort his 'Hindu side' finds in it with the pressure his 'Jewish side' feels to get it right in this one lifetime.
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love has no dark sideThe cycle of worldly existence. It appears in Tamir's Upanishad paraphrase that rituals are 'a poor raft to cross the sea of samsara'.