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Updated: June 25, 2025
Go where she would, she found herself surrounded by willing slaves, who at the slightest encouragement would have thrown themselves at her feet. In vain were schadchens employed by many of the wealthy and influential Jewish residents in Kief to seek the hand of Jeiteles' lovely daughter in marriage. But Recha had neither eyes nor ears for any of them.
The remaining guests also arose from their chairs and looked at each other in blank dismay. Rabbi Jeiteles stepped to the American and placed his hand upon his shoulder. "My dear Pesach," he began, "what you have just said sounds strange and very dangerous to these good people. To me it was nothing new, for during my early travels I heard such discussions again and again.
On the Sabbath following the events just narrated, the Israelites went to their places of worship as usual, and ardent prayers for deliverance ascended to the Almighty. Mendel, notwithstanding his youth, officiated in the place of the departed Rabbi Jeiteles, and on this occasion he formally entered upon the duties of his honorable office.
During the next few weeks Mendel was at his Talmudic studies in the jeschiva as usual, but there was a decided change in his manner a certain listlessness, a lack of interest, which were so apparent that Rabbi Jeiteles could not but observe them. "I fear that the boy has been studying too hard," he said to his wife one day. "We must induce him to take more exercise."
"Reb Bensef being very much distressed by the death of Rabbi Jeiteles, went to Tchernigof to ask counsel of the bal-shem and has just returned." "Well, what did the wise man advise?" asked Jentele, burning with impatience, while her partially washed baby lay kicking in her arms. "Listen, I am coming to that," answered Itzig, with provoking slowness.
"Tell me, are the Jews treated as cruelly all over the world as they are in Russia?" "Unfortunately they are, in some other countries. Why do you ask?" "Because I think Rabbi, are we not ourselves to blame for our wretched existence?" Jeiteles looked at the boy in surprise. "That is a very grave question for a boy of your age," he said. "What gave you such an idea?"
You yourself have often told me: 'Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers. I have some of Harretzki's books, however, and at night when I cannot sleep I take them out of my closet and look at them. But they are not in Hebrew and I cannot read them. Rabbi, I beg of you to teach me." Rabbi Jeiteles was in a quandary.
The lovers, happy and contented, sat side by side, discussing their roseate future, and when the Rabbi and his wife returned, the young folks advanced to meet them. "Rabbi," said the student, bravely, "Recha has promised to be my wife." "Mazal tov," ejaculated both Jeiteles and his wife. "May the Lord of Israel bless you." The messenger from Odessa was dismissed with a negative reply.
The newly wedded pair took up their residence with Rabbi Jeiteles, whose advanced age incapacitated him at times from attending to the onerous duties of his office. Mendel was ever at his side as a helper, until he grew into the office.
He was still the most industrious Talmud scholar of the college; his remarkable aptitude and zeal for the studies of his fathers was in nowise diminished; but when the hours at the jeschiva were at an end, instead of returning to his uncle's home, or of spending his time upon the streets with his boisterous playmates, he would walk with Rabbi Jeiteles in the fields, or remain closeted with him, pursuing his investigations in new fields of knowledge.
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