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He saw that for Mendelssohn as for himself nothing really existed but the great questions. Flippant interruptions the sage seemed to disregard, and if the topic dribbled out into irrelevancies he fell silent. Maimon studied the noble curve of his forehead, the decided nose, the prominent lips, in the light of Herr Lavater's theories. Lessing said little: he had the air of a broken man.
And the Rabbi is still alive to prove it may his light continue to shine though they write that he has lost his memory." The Shalotten Shammos sceptically passed a pear to his son. Old Gabriel Hamburg, the scholar, came compassionately to the raconteur's assistance. "Rabbi Solomon Maimon," he said, "has left it on record that he witnessed a similar funeral in Posen."
The little bundle, which, to the zealot Jewish elders of that community, seemed sufficient indication that Maimon was tainted with heresy, and that his intentions were to devote himself to the study of science and philosophy, proved a great impediment to entering Berlin; and when, after a long, incredible struggle, he was finally admitted, he found himself incapable of earning a livelihood.
They brought him into evil odor with his orthodox brethren, did these "Jerusalem Werthers," but who should deal with them, if not he that understood them, that could handle them delicately? What was to Maimon a unique episode was to his host an everyday experience.
How do you suppose I could face him, if I became a Christian?" "You forget, my dear Maimon, he knows the Truth now. Must he not rejoice that his daughters have fallen upon the bosom of the Church?" Maimon sat up in bed with a sudden shock of remembrance that set him coughing. "Dorothea, but not Henrietta?" he gasped painfully. "Henrietta too. Did you not know?
It was a bold thing to do, for since he was come to Berlin, and had read more of his books, he had gathered that Mendelssohn still professed Orthodox Judaism. A paradox this to Maimon, and roundly denied as impossible when he first heard of it.
What say you to a partnership?" "In begging?" "What else have I to offer? You are new to the country you don't know the roads you haven't got any money." "Pardon me! I have a thaler left." "No, you haven't you pay that to me for the partnership." The metaphysical Maimon was tickled. "But what do I gain for my thaler?" "My experience." "But if so, you gain nothing from my partnership."
'I doubt that, said Rabbi Zimri, 'or why should he be called king? 'Was he of the house of David? said Alroy. 'Without doubt, said Rabbi Maimon; 'he was one of our greatest kings, and conquered Julius Caesar. 'His kingdom was in the northernmost parts of Africa, said Rabbi Zimri, 'and exists to this day, if we could but find it.
Among these immigrants were two who may justly be regarded as the conducting medium through which the Haskalah currents were transmitted from Germany to Russo-Poland: Solomon Dubno, the indefatigable laborer in the province of Jewish science, and Solomon Maimon, the brilliant but unfortunate philosopher, both of them teachers in the house of Mendelssohn.
This work appeared in 1674; the first part of it was written by Penn, the second by Whithead, one of his most distinguished disciples. XV. It may be added, that the symbolic book of the Jews, is The Schelosch aikara ikkarim, the Thirteen Articles of Faith framed by Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon in the 12th century: it is frequently inserted in the Jewish prayer books.
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