How good it is and how pleasant
for brothers to live together!
. . . It is like the dew of Hermon falling
upon the hills of Zion.
There the Lord bestows his blessing,
life for evermore.
--From Psalm 133, Shcharansky's
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The psalmbook kept him company. During the nine years he spent in Soviet prisons and work camps, most of his other possessions were taken from him. But he clung to a miniature copy of the Book of Psalms that his wife Avital had sent from Israel. In fact, he once spent 130 days in solitary confinement because he refused...