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Heshel's successor was Rabbi Moyshe Savranski, who established a regular hasidic "court," after the pattern of Chernobyl and Ruzhin. The only Tzaddik to whom it was not given to be the founder of a dynasty was the somewhat eccentric Rabbi Nahman of Bratzlav, a great-grandson of Besht.
"She favored me with a vocal selection. And, believe me, she was no mocking-bird." "Well, she looks dead, now," grinned Fallon; "but we'd besht make sure. Owld man Frontenelle kilt her wunst. Seven year back, ut was over on Monish. "He shot her clean t'rough th' neck an' dhrug her to his cabin be th' tail. He was for skinnin' her flat f'r th' robe she'd make.
At the very moment in which Europe was beginning to realize its medieval errors and repent of them, and the era of universal ideals of humanity was dawning, Judaism raised barricades between itself and the world at large. Elijah Gaon and Israel Besht were the contemporaries of Voltaire and Rousseau.
An' now he'll lay fer a chanst to git aven. Ut's th' besht ye c'n do loike he says, kape th' two eyes av ye to th' front an' moind yer own business only kape wan eye behint ye to look out fer throuble. Phwat fer job did he give yez?" "I am to start swamping, whatever that is, for the big Swede." The Irishman grinned. "Oi thoucht so; an' may God have mercy on yer sowl."
The man rallied his strength so effectively to make this effort that he lost his balance, and stumbling against Will, pitched him over. "Look look out friend!" roared Will, as he floundered in mud and water. "Can't you do better than that?" "Besht hic I can do for you. Might try it again hic." "O, thanks thanks. Be contented with that trial. There is my boot, stuck fast in the mud, and let her go.
One province there was to which the Besht could not penetrate, at least not without a long siege and great losses. In Lithuania the inroads of Hasidism were strenuously opposed, and its advance disputed step by step.
He was as retiring as the Besht was aggressive. Nevertheless his word was law, and his influence immense. The centenary of his death was celebrated among all classes with the solemnity which the memories of "men of God" inspire.
"Ay, ay," shouted several, in a breath; "what is to be done with 'em? There's no water for them that's sartin." "Why, what can be done?" responded an inhuman monster. "Chuck 'em overboard!" "Dunder an' blitz!" exclaimed a ferocious German, who appeared pleased with the idea; "dhat is de besht blan wees not can do petter dhan to glear 'em out from de sheep."
Not inappropriately he was called Gaon and Hasid, for in mental and moral attainments he was unique in his generation. As the Besht was noted in his early life for dulness and indifference, so Elijah was remarkable for diligence and versatility. His life, like the Besht's, became the nucleus of many wonderful tales, which his biographer narrates with painstaking exactness.
"Oi'd av know'd um in hiven or hell, or Hong-Kong. Captain Fronte's own silf, he is, as loike as two peas. An' the age av Captain Fronte befure he was kilt, phwin he was th' besht officer in all th' British ar-rmy or an-ny ar-rmy.
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