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The bodies were embalmed, and Almah had more victims to crown with garlands in the horrible cheder nebilin. I resolved to go on no more sacred hunts. I was sickened at the horrible cruelty, the needless slaughter, the mad self-sacrifice which distinguished them.
I had the same fear of death which she had. When I had gone with her to the cheder nebilin, when I had used my sepet-ram to save life, she had perceived in me feelings and impulses to which all her own nature responded. Finally, when I asked about the Mista Kosek, she warned me not to go.
"No." "Don't lie, Davie. It is that assassin, the cholera take him! Tell me the truth. Don't be afraid." "A boy did it." "What is his name?" "I don't know. It was a boy in the street." "You are a liar." The next morning when I went to cheder she accompanied me Arrived there, she stripped me half-naked and, pointing at the discoloration on my arm, she said, with ominous composure: "Look!
"Then, again, the younger children are during the very cold weather kept warm in bed with feather coverlets and pillows, which the elder people try to keep warm in doing the necessary household duties. Very few go out in the streets, except the men when they go to Shule, and the elder boys when they go to the Yeshiba or Cheder, and even they are very often kept at home.
At the age of five, the Jewish lad was sent to cheder and his young years devoted to the study of the Bible. Every other occupation of mind and body was interdicted, the very plays of happy childhood were abolished. The Pentateuch must henceforth form the sole mental nourishment of the boy.
"We were fond of each other as children, when he first began his lessons at cheder," replied the girl, earnestly; "but it was only recently that he declared his love." "He found that you were surrounded by admiring youths and feared that you might be taken from him," added her mother. "And did you promise to be his wife?" asked the Rabbi. "Oh, no, father. I could not do that without your consent.
This was followed by similar scenes at the houses of my cousins, until finally I was allowed to resume my studies, sometimes at the same cheder, sometimes at some other one. There were scores of such private schools in our town, and before I got through my elementary religious education I had become acquainted with a considerable number of them
True, the greater portion of the Jews of Kief still held tenaciously to their prejudices, absolutely refusing to learn anything not taught at the cheder. In the eyes of these people Mendel was a renegade and a heretic. The only thing which prevented them from hurling the ban of excommunication against him was their recollection of the good he had accomplished.
My brother and I did not get nearer heaven by our transference to school, for the Cheder was a hut little larger than and certainly as smoky as our own, where a crowd of youngsters of all ages sat on hard benches or on the bare earth, according to the state of the upper atmosphere.
Very often the passage which he thus made me read was a lesson I had studied under one of his predecessors, but I never gave him away Every cheder had its king. As a rule, it was the richest boy in the school, but I was usually the power behind the throne. "If you do it again I'll kill you," I said "If you lay a finger on me," he retorted, "the teacher will kick you out.
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