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'For a hundred roubles and the promise of personal immunity Red Judah allowed Maimon the Meshummad to change the bottles while all Israel sat at the Seder. It was because the mob saw the Meshummad stealing out of the synagogue that they fell upon him for a pious Jew. Behold, brethren, how the Almighty weaves His threads together.
Amy Levy's renderings of some of Jehudah Halevi's love songs are quoted by Lady Magnus in the first of her "Jewish Portraits." Dr. J. Egers discusses Samuel ha-Nagid's "Stammering Maid" in the Graetz Jubelschrift , pp. 116-126. Moses Mendelssohn befriended Maimon, in so far as it was possible to befriend so wayward a personality. Maimon made real contributions to philosophy.
'Rabbi Hillel, of Samaria, is worth two Mendolas any day, said Rabbi Maimon. ''Tis a most learned doctor, said Rabbi Zimri; 'and what thinks he? 'Hillel proves that there are two Tombs of the Kings, said Rabbi Maimon, 'and that neither of them are the right ones. 'What a learned doctor! exclaimed Rabbi Zimri. 'And very satisfactory, remarked Alroy.
Solomon Maimon learned the alphabet of the German, the language in which he later wrote his best philosophic essays, from the German names of the treatises of the Talmud prefixed to an edition printed in Berlin. And many other such cases among the educated Jews of Lithuania might be cited.
Lacking the advantages of secular schools, they culled their first information from scanty, antiquated Hebrew translations. Maimon learned the Roman alphabet from the transliteration of the titles on the fly-leaves of some Talmudic tracts; Doctor Behr, from Wolff's Mathematics.
To himself he thought, "That is very witty: I must remember to tell Lapidoth that." And he called for another glass of whisky. "Yes; but many of our sages, meseems, are dependent on their womankind. I have dispensed with woman; must I therefore dispense with support likewise?" Maimon was amused and shocked in one. He set down his whisky, unsipped. "But he who dispenses with woman lives in sin.
On p. 173, where Maimon again talks of the Rabbinical method of evolving all sorts of moral truths by the oddest exegesis, she writes, "The method has been constantly pursued in various forms by Christian Teachers." On p. 186 Maimon makes merry at the annulment of vows previous to the Day of Atonement. George Eliot writes, "These are religious vows not engagements between man and man."
And he, Maimon, no less blessed with genius, what had he been doing, to slumber so long on these soft beds of superstition and barbarism, deaf to that early call of Truth, that youthful dream of Knowledge? Yes, he would go back to Berlin, he would shake off the clinging mists of the Ghetto, he would be the pioneer of his people's emancipation.
Maimon, conscious of a correction, blushed and awoke to find himself the centre of observation. His host made haste to add, "You remind me of the odium I incurred by agreeing with the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's edict, that we should not bury our dead before the third day. And this in spite of my proofs from the Talmud!
'It contains twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-seven quotations from the Pentateuch, and not a single original observation. 'There were giants in those days, said Rabbi Zimri; 'we are children now. 'The first chapter makes equal sense, read backward or forward, continued Rabbi Maimon. 'Ichabod! exclaimed Rabbi Zimri.
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