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Updated: May 15, 2025
'My co-religionists in Sudminster seem to have put all the stress upon the resting half of the Commandment, forgetting the working half of it. I do my best to meet their views as you say, one should not dig down a wall by attending their Sabbath service on a day most inconvenient to me. But no sacrifice is too great to achieve prayerful communion with one's brethren.
Even in his provincial days at Sudminster Solomon Cohen had distinguished himself by his Anglican mispronunciation of Hebrew and his insistence on a minister who spoke English and looked like a Christian clergyman; and he had set a precedent in the congregation by docking the 'e' of his patronymic.
'Then you persist in setting a bad example? 'A bad example! To whom? To your godly congregation? Considering every other shop in the town is open on Shabbos, one more or less can't upset them. 'When it is the only Jewish shop! Are you aware, sir, that every other Jew in Sudminster closes rigorously on the Sabbath? 'I ascertained that before I settled here, said Simeon Samuels quietly.
'He sells shoddy new reach-me-downs as pawned old clo, complained Lazarus Levy, who had taken over S. Cohn's business, together with his daughter Deborah, 'and he charges the Sudminster donkey-heads more than the price we ask for 'em as new. Talk of the devil ! At this point Simeon Samuels stalked into the synagogue, late but serene.
And Simeon Samuels was equipped not only with capital and enterprise the showy plate-glass front of his shop revealed an enticing miscellany but with blasphemy and bravado. For he did not close on Friday eve, and he opened on Saturday morning as usual. The rumour did not get round all Sudminster the first Friday night, but by the Sabbath morning the synagogue hummed with it.
'As it is written: "And remove Satan from before and behind us." 'Since when have we owned Sudminster? sneered the Parnass. 'You might as well talk of expelling the Mayor and the Corporation. 'I didn't mean by Act of Parliament, said Mendel. 'We could make his life a torture. 'And meantime he makes yours a torture. No, no, the only way is to appeal to his soul
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