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In each there was an island of text in a sea of commentary, itself lost in an ocean of super-commentary that was bordered by a continent of super-super-commentary. Reb Shemuel knew many of these immense folios with all their tortuous windings of argument and anecdote much as the child knows the village it was born in, the crooked by-ways and the field paths.
"What Shool will you be going to for Passover? I can get you a seat in mine if you haven't arranged." "Thank you, but I promised Mr. Birnbaum to come to the little synagogue of which he is President. It seems they have a scarcity of Cohenim, and they want me to bless the congregation, I suppose." "What!" cried Reb Shemuel excitedly. "Are you a Cohen?" "Of course I am.
"Let me be! I'm too old now to get a Chosan, so let me be as I am. I can always earn my own living." "Thou seest, Shemuel?" said Simcha. "Thou seest my sorrows? Thou seest how impious our children wax in this godless country." "Let her be, Simcha, let her be," said the Reb. "She is young yet. If she hasn't any inclination thereto !" "And what is her inclination? A pretty thing, forsooth!
It isn't as if you were really married to him," said the Reb, his eye twinkling. "But isn't it all absurd, father?" "Do not talk so," said Reb Shemuel, resuming his gravity. "Is it absurd that you should be scorched if you play with fire?" Hannah did not reply to the question. "You never told me how you got on at Manchester," she said. "Did you settle the dispute satisfactorily?"
And so every Friday, heedless of scoffing on-lookers, Mendel Hyams kissed the stones of the Wailing Place, bedewing their barrenness with tears; and every year at Passover, until he was gathered to his fathers, he continued to pray: "Next year in Jerusalem!" "Ah, the Men-of-the-Earth!" said Pinchas to Reb Shemuel, "ignorant fanatics, how shall a movement prosper in their hands?
But Pinchas works also with his pen. He writes articles in the papers. But the great thing, Hannah, is that he loves the Law." "H'm!" said Hannah. "Let him marry the Law, then." "He is in a hurry," said Reb Shemuel with a flash of irreverent facetiousness. "And he cannot become the Bridegroom of the Law till Simchath Torah." All laughed.
"Fathers are expected to do these little things for their own children. But how much nicer it would be if you could give me the Gett yourself." "I would marry you with pleasure," said Reb Shemuel, "but divorce is another matter. The Din has too much regard for a father's feelings to allow that." "And you really think I am Sam Levine's wife?" "How many times shall I tell you?
"You planned all this you thought my Leah didn't have enough money, and that Reb Shemuel will heap you up gold in the hands. But you don't take me in like this." "May this piece of bread choke me if I had the slightest iota of intention!" cried Samuel passionately, for the thought of what Leah might think was like fire in his veins.
They are grown so cunning now they print their hellish appeals in Hebrew, knowing we reverence the Holy Tongue." "Yes, the ordinary Man-of-the-Earth believes everything that's in Hebrew. That was the mistake of the Apostles to write in Greek. But then they, too, were such Men-of-the Earth." "I wonder who writes such good Hebrew for the missionaries," said Reb Shemuel.
"Do you know that anecdote about the two Jews in the Transvaal?" Pinchas went on. "That's a real Chine." "I don't think I know that Maaseh," said Reb Shemuel. "Oh, the two Jews had made a trek and were travelling onwards exploring unknown country. One night they were sitting by their campfire playing cards when suddenly one threw up his cards, tore his hair and beat his breast in terrible agony.
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