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'Nay, but God sends the Prophet of Redemption in strange guise, the physician said. 'Listen! Maimon was pursued by a drunken mob, ignorant he was a deserter from our camp.
It changed to German under the impulse of the host, who from his umpire's chair controlled it with play of eye, head, or hand; and when appealed to, would usually show that both parties were fighting about words, not things. Maimon noted from his semi-obscure retreat that the talk grew more serious and connected, touched problems.
My husband and my son are both scholars, and so long as you choose to tarry at Posen they will be delighted if you will honor our table." Maimon could scarcely believe his ears; but the evidence of a sumptuous supper was irrefusable. And after that he was conducted to a clean bed!
All the same I am sorry it is the Rabbi of Posen who is launching these old-fashioned thunders against the German Pentateuch of "Moses of Dessau," for both as a Talmudist and mathematician Hirsch Janow has my sincere respect. Not in vain is he styled 'the keen scholar, and from all I hear he is a truly good man." "A saint!" cried Maimon enthusiastically, again forgetting his shyness.
Maimon began to shout in imitation of the cannon, in imagination he ran amuck in a synagogue, as he had seen the prince do, smashing and wrecking everything, tearing the Holy Scrolls from the Ark and trampling upon them. Yes, they deserved it, the cowardly bigots. Down with the law, to hell with the Rabbis. A-a-a-h! He would grind the phylacteries under his heel thus. And thus! And
"Was it?" cried Mendelssohn delightedly. "So it was of mine. In fact I tell the Berliners Maimonides was responsible for my hump, and some of them actually believe I got it bending over him." This charming acceptance of his affliction touched the sensitive Maimon and put him more at ease than even the praise of his writings and the fraternal vocabulary.
From this admirable work, in which he neither hides his follies nor flaunts his talents, we learn that Maimon possessed rare virtues. His sympathy for the poor, his ready helpfulness even at the sacrifice of himself, rendered him as uncommon in moral action as in philosophic speculation. To the English reader a striking parallelism suggests itself between him and his contemporary Oliver Goldsmith.
'The illustrious Doctor Abarbanel, of Babylon, said Rabbi Maimon, 'gives one hundred and twenty reasons in his commentary on the Gemara to prove that they sunk under the earth at the taking of the Temple. 'No one reasons like Abarbanel of Babylon, said Rabbi Zimri. 'The great Rabbi Akiba, of Pundebita, has answered them all, said Rabbi Maimon, 'and holds that they were taken up to heaven.
The soldiers perceiving he was in a violent fever, summoned the Jewish overseer, who carried him back into the poorhouse. Maimon awoke the next morning with a clear and lively mind, and soon understood that he was sick. "God be thanked," he thought joyfully, "now I shall remain here some days, during which not only shall I eat but I may hope to prevail upon some kindly visitor to protect me.
He was a scribe, you know, and wrote the Scrolls of the Law. But he wanted me to be a pedlar." "A pedlar!" cried Maimon, open-eyed. "Yes, the money would come in at once, you see. I had quite a fight to persuade him I would do better as a Rabbi. I fear I was a very violent and impatient youngster. He didn't at all believe in my Rabbinical future.
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