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They lived in Bury Street, and Prescott Street, and Finsbury these aristocrats of the Ghetto in mansions that are now but congeries of "apartments." Few relations had they with Belgravia, but many with Petticoat Lane and the Great Shool, the stately old synagogue which has always been illuminated by candles and still refuses all modern light.
On page 6 you speak of the Reform Shool, as if it were to be reasoned with. Sir, if we mention these freethinkers at all, it must be in the strongest language. By worshipping bare-headed and by seating the sexes together they have denied Judaism." "Stop a minute!" interrupted Raphael warmly. "Who told you the Reformers do this?" "Who told me, indeed? Why, it's common knowledge.
My Michael made a Missheberach for them in synagogue the Sabbath after the engagement; not a common eighteen-penny benediction, but a guinea one, with half-crown blessings thrown in for his parents and the congregation, and a gift of five shillings to the minister. That was of course in our own Chevrah, not reckoning the guinea my Michael shnodared at Duke's Plaizer Shool.
"But no pretending you haven't got it about you, when we're at the Shool, no asking us to wait till we get home," said Sugarman, "or else I withdraw my man, even from under the Chuppah itself. When shall I bring him for your inspection?" "Oh, to-morrow afternoon, Sunday, when Becky will be out in the park with her young men. It's best I shall see him first!"
But the "Buglers" made no sign of being scared, everything was still and nothing purloined, so Jonathan took a reprimand from his disturbed wife and curled himself up again in bed. Sugarman did things in style and through the influence of a client the confirmation ceremony was celebrated in "Duke's Plaizer Shool."
She had seen her face frowning, weeping, overcast with gloom, never with an expression so fateful. It seemed as if her resolution was writ large upon every feature for all to read. In the evening she accompanied her father to Shool. She did not often go in the evening, and the thought of going only suddenly occurred to her.
This scandal must cease. 'And who are you to give orders? shrieked Solomon Barzinsky. 'You're not speaking to a Schnorrer, mind you. My banking account is every bit as big as yours. For two pins I start an opposition Shool. 'A Sunday Shool! said the Parnass sarcastically. 'And why not? It would be better than sitting playing solo on Sundays. We are not in Palestine now.
"Immediately after Shool I spake with the Rabbi and he said 'Bear, are thy Tephillin in order? So I said 'Yea, Rabbi, they are very large and I bought them of the pious scribe, Naphtali, and I look to the knots weekly. But he said, 'I will examine them. So I brought them to him and he opened the head-phylactery and lo! in place of the holy parchment he found bread crumbs."
I could write Holy Scrolls, indeed, and keep an inn, but what availed these accomplishments? As I found I could obtain no work, I went into the Shool of the 'Sons of the Soul. I seated myself next a man, and we began to speak. I told him of my plight. Said he: 'I will give you advice. Call on our Rabbi. He is a very fine man. I did so.
"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.
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