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Updated: July 4, 2025
'Asked? Prayed, as one prays upon Atonement Day. For two years I prayed to him, but he always refused. 'Then why ? began the artist. 'Yossel is so proud. It is his only sin. 'Oh, Yenta! protested Yossel flushing, 'I am a very sinful man. 'Yes, but your sin is all in a lump, the Bube replied.
And your first prayer, Yossel, must be that you shall not die very soon, else the labourer will not be worthy of his hire. Yossel took her yellow withered hand as in a lover's clasp. 'Be at peace, Yenta! He will be redeemed if only by your merits. Are we not one? 'This is the bread of affliction which our fathers ate in the land of Egypt.
Of course this might only have been gratitude, inasmuch as a fortnight earlier on the solemn New Year Day when, by an untimely decree, the grandmother lay ill abed, Yossel had obtained possession of the Shofar, and leaving the synagogue had gone to blow it to her.
But Yossel is cunning in the customs of the heathen; he will explain to the soldiers that he is an Austrian subject, and that I am his Frau. 'What! Pass you off as his Frau! 'Who speaks of passing off? He could say I was his sister, as Abraham our Father said of Sarah. But that was a sin in the sight of Heaven, and therefore as our sages explain
'One must not shame a fellow-man, Yossel urged. 'The sin of that is equal to the sin of shedding blood. The grandmother nodded her head approvingly. 'It is enough that the All-High knows his name. But for such an Epicurean much praying will be necessary. It will be a long work.
'It is simpler to be married, Yossel interrupted. 'Married! echoed the artist angrily. 'The witnesses are coming to my lodging this afternoon, Yossel continued calmly. 'Dovidel and Yitzkoly from the Beth Hamedrash. 'They think they are only coming to a farewell glass of brandy, chuckled the grandmother. 'But they will find themselves at a secret wedding.
He had boldly proposed to lead her under the Canopy, but at this point, it was said, the old lady had drawn back she who had led him so far was not to be thus led. Women are changeable, it is known, and even when they are old they do not change. But Yossel had stood up for his rights; he had demanded compensation. And his fare to Palestine was a concession for his injured affections.
It would seem that the giddy old thing hobbled home from synagogue conversing with Yossel Mandelstein, the hunchback, and sometimes even offered the unshapely septuagenarian her snuffbox as he passed the door of her cottage. More than one village censor managed to acquaint the artist with the flirtation ere he had found energy to walk the muddy mile to her dwelling.
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