If you do not know how to fortify yourself in exile, how to assert the power to protect your own child, then go out, go out to be strengthened by following the tracks of the sheep [see Song of Songs 1:8].… Rabbi El’azar said, “ ‘The tracks of the sheep’ means the students of the Academy who later came into the world [i.e., the kabbalists] and discovered Torah by following the straight path. The path is open; so they create/renew ancient teachings every day. Shekhinah rests upon them and listens to