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So far their system of self-government appears almost a prototype of our own. The same is true of their municipal administration. The rabbi, who had the deciding vote in case of a dead-lock, stood in the same relation to them as the mayor holds to us, only that his term of office, nominally limited to three years, was actually for life or during good behavior.
The heathen leap and rage, the flames they are flinging will consume us. Rabbi, Rabbi, call upon the Hosts of the Lord! God of the just! The gate has given way. Lord! Lord! Lord!" The terrified wretch's teeth chattered and he covered his eyes with his hands, groaning and howling. Ben Jochai had remained perfectly calm, but he was quivering with rage.
The baby in the cradle beside her howled more vigorously, and automatically her foot sought the rocker, and she heard herself singing: 'Sleep, little baby, sleep, Thy father shall be a Rabbi; Thy mother shall bring thee almonds; Blessings on thy little head.
Reverence filled the disciples as they listened to his words; but not until he had put on his robe and taken his place at the table did they understand. "Do you know why I have done this?" he asked. "You call me your Rabbi and your Master and that is right: I am your Master. If I am willing to wash your feet, should you not serve one another? No servant is greater than his Master.
I have listened respectfully and with an earnest and sincere desire to see and know the Truth, to all you have said, and now I want to be left alone. I have come to exclaim with Browning in Rabbi Ben Ezra: Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me.
To make the matter secure, as Jacob was to leave Cambridge the next day, and as the rabbi was at the house of one of his scholars in the country, and was not to return to Cambridge till the ensuing week, Jacob left with me a letter for him, and the very parcel which I had seen directed to Mr. Israel Lyons: these I engaged to deliver with my own hands.
Rabbi Shneor Zalman, the eminent leader of the Lithuanian Hasidim, hearing of the invasion of the French army, spent many days in prayer and fasting for the success of the Russians, and fled on the Sabbath day, not to be contaminated by contact with the "godless French."
For you to prosecute one of your boys and be the witness yourself. . . . Rabbi, you can't mean it. . . . Say it's a mistake." The old man only gave a deep sigh. "If it were Dowbiggin or . . . any man except you, I would n't care one straw, rather enjoy the debate, but you whom we have loved and looked up to and boasted about, why, it's like . . . a father turning against his sons."
Afterwards the Rabbi vindicated and glorified Calvinism from the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, from the Fathers, from the Reformation Divines, from the later creeds, till the brain of the Presbytery reeled through the wealth of allusion and quotation, all in the tongues of the learned. Then he dealt with the theology of Mr.
Rabbi-El-Melek. Traveller. "Admitting the curse pronounced here was right, that Ham and Canaan were the progenitors of the African negroes, and that the curse was to be extended to all generations of Africa are these reasons why the all-Merciful Deity will hold man guiltless who enslaves and maltreats poor Africans? The Rabbi.
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