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Among the leading spirits were our old friends, Karlkammer the red-haired zealot, Sugarman the Shadchan, and Guedalyah the greengrocer, together with Gradkoski the scholar, fancy goods merchant and man of the world. A furniture-dealer, who was always failing, was also an important personage, while Ebenezer Sugarman, a young man who had once translated a romance from the Dutch, acted as secretary.
I am the very man at the very hour. And yet I will not go rashly slow and sure my plan is to collect small amounts from the poor to start by sending one family at a time to Palestine. That is how we must do it. How does that strike you, Guedalyah. You agree?" "Yes, yes. That is also my opinion." "You see I am not a Napoleon only in great ideas. I understand detail, though as a poet I abhor it.
Who will infuse into him the true patriotic fervor, the love of his race, the love of Zion, the land of his fathers?" "Ah, you are verily a man after my own heart!" said Guedalyah, the greengrocer, overswept by a wave of admiration. "Why should you not come with me to my Beth-Hamidrash to-night, to the meeting for the foundation of the Holy Land League? That cauliflower will be four-pence, mum."
R. Papa ben Samuel remarks, 'Had I not been present, I should not have believed it. Doesn't this appendix about ben Samuel show that it was never meant to be taken seriously?" "It has some high meaning we do not understand in these degenerate times," said Guedalyah the greengrocer. "It is not for our paper to weaken faith in the Talmud."
Raphael and Karlkammer were the only two men in the room not smoking cigars Raphael, because he preferred his pipe, and Karlkammer for some more mystic reason. "We must not ignore Cabalah," the zealot's voice was heard to observe. "You can't get advertisements by Cabalah," drily interrupted Guedalyah, the greengrocer, a practical man, as everybody knew. "No, indeed," protested Sampson.
The ideas you expound in the Jewish papers for the amelioration of the lot of our poor brethren are most statesmanlike. But these donkey-head English rich people what help can you expect from them? They do not even understand your plans. They have only sympathy with needs of the stomach." "You are right! You are right, Pinchas!" said Guedalyah, the greengrocer, eagerly.
French, German, Spanish, Arabic they flow from my pen like honey from a rod. As for Hebrew, you know, Guedalyah, I and you are the only two men in England who can write Holy Language grammatically. And yet these miserable stockbrokers, Men-of-the-Earth, they dare to say I cannot write English, and they have given me the sack.
Elkan Benjamin, who keeps four mistresses, it will depose the lump of flesh who reigns over it and it will seize the hem of my coat and beseech me to be its Rabbi." "We should have a more orthodox Chief Rabbi, certainly," admitted Guedalyah. "Orthodox?
"Ah, what is that?" said Pinchas. "I have an idea; a score of us meet to-night to discuss it." "Ah, yes! You have always ideas. You are a sage and a saint, Guedalyah. The Beth-Hamidrash which you have established is the only centre of real orthodoxy and Jewish literature in London.
A dirty-nailed forefinger was laid on the right of the nose. "You won't forget," said the head coaxingly. "Of course I won't forget," cried the greengrocer querulously. The meeting took place at ten that night at the Beth Hamidrash founded by Guedalyah, a large unswept room rudely fitted up as a synagogue and approached by reeking staircases, unsavory as the neighborhood.
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