een taught from the days of Abraham and Moses and Elijah that God is one, indivisible, alone and unknowable. could live in security outside the walls, knowing that in time of trouble they could retreat to safety within the battlements. He was crying. verwhelmed by the Mamelukes, and now its jagged turrets and crumbling walls seemed like the broken teeth one finds in a weathering skull.
These were the happiest years that the Judenstrasse of Gretz ever knew, and none of the inhabitants had greater cause for joy than Rabbi Eliezer and his wife. I train in the army, and we shall win from the English, she predicted confidently, and from the Arabs, too, if they insist. Fortified by three scroUs of law he sat in the chair that Judah had used, folded his hands under his black beard and said unctuously, Your husband died leavingno children. This town is nothing, he grumbled.
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