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Updated: May 28, 2025
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."
It is, therefore, no wonder if in this work, sublime and mean, serious and ridiculous, Jewish and heathen elements, the altar and the ashes are found in motley mixture." To the jeschiva, or Talmud school, Mendel was immediately sent after his phenomenal recovery. The great Rabbi Jeiteles himself became the lad's instructor. Let us accompany Mendel on this beautiful autumn day to his school.
Mendel continued his studies, and in the course of a few years his fame spread from jeschiva to jeschiva, from congregation to congregation. By the time that he was twenty-one years of age, he had published a book in Hebrew, which, while it respected the religious sentiment of his people, paved the way for assimilating the modern knowledge. The work created a profound impression.
I will give an outfit to both bride and groom and provide them with money to last a year, if you will consent to their marrying in the cemetery. What do you think of it?" "Who is the young man?" queried Jentele, her face expressing neither pleasure nor pain. "You know the jeschiva student, Kahn?" "He is poor, very poor, indeed." "What is that to us?
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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