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Updated: April 30, 2025
Our hearts groan under the heavy blows of misfortune, but in the end we will find ourselves the stronger, the better, the more perfect for the tribulations we have undergone." Recha felt the truth of her husband's words and dried her eyes. "I look into the year just begun with great hopes," continued Mendel. "Among our own people the greatest harmony prevails.
The Rabbi hastily poured some liquor into a glass which Recha had brought and held it to the young man's lips. The draught seemed to revive him. "Hurry," he whispered, looking about him, anxiously; "hide me somewhere before the officers come after me." A look of disappointment passed over the Rabbi's face. "Then you are not acquitted?" he asked. "No! I escaped.
Occasionally one might find an example of a well-directed and thoroughly developed mind among the daughters of Israel, even though surrounded by the retarding influences of the ghetto. We have seen how well Recha had been educated and her daughter Kathinka was being brought up in the same way. She was independent in thought as well as in action, but never at the cost of maidenly sentiment.
We are too apt to be like Recha in "Nathan," when she only looked at the palm trees because the Templar was standing under them; when her mind recovered its balance, she could see the palm trees themselves. "Nun werd' ich auch die Palmen wieder sehen Nicht ihn bloss untern Palmen."
She seems to be unhappy; I like her.-Yesterday I had to interrupt my writing, because the fat idiot Backberg called me to the table. I sit next to the Russian Recha. She likes to pinch my leg; she says I'm too fat. She kisses tall Lehkind, because he looks like a skeleton. Anyway, I can't stand the vermin that have been assembled here. There's trouble every day.
The greatest consternation prevailed among the little group. For a Jew to be summoned before the Governor betokened no good. "You would arrest my husband!" cried Recha, placing herself between the soldier and the Rabbi. "He has done no wrong. You shall not take him!" "Calm yourself, Recha," said the Rabbi, gently. "There is no need of borrowing trouble.
He visited the most dangerous pest-holes, helped to move the sick, brought relief and consolation to the suffering and bereaved, while ever at his side was his wife, Recha. Her devotion to the cause was only second to the love she bore her husband.
Mendel was now a man of about forty-five and in the full vigor of contented manhood. A wealth of coal-black hair shaded his massive forehead and a long but neatly trimmed beard set off his handsome face. Recha had become stouter and more matronly, but one would scarcely take her for the mother of the blooming girl by her side. Kathinka was a perfect specimen of Hebrew beauty.
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.
Had it not been for the grief it caused me, I doubt whether I should have felt it my duty to open the eyes of our good people, but might have allowed them to continue in their accustomed way. Troubles, dear Recha, are frequently blessings in disguise, and under the rod of affliction we may recognize the loving hand of God.
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