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Zeide and His Succah

No!
Impossible! It is sheer dese- and ?Ride took on the appearance of
1 / He is at once surrounded by evt try- think anybody in the house will miss
cration. Nay, it is perilous!
one who has just now cynic out of the I body present.
it," he continued. "Let us also de•o-
Zeide walks towards him. He hands bath house; washed, cleansed, combed,
rate it a little, and place a table and
"Perfection personified!"
him the shofar.
and beaming with vivacity and hap-
a
chair—lust one chair."
By BERNARD ISAACS
And
after
all
this
entire
transact
No, he is not at all afraid. 11'ith piness.
Ion , The old Succah was decorated and
of business, more than half of the c
the shofar firmly in his hand he walks
Right at the close of Yom Kippur
us e furnished as usual. The non-Jewish
is
left
unsold.
with a steady gait to the platform. he took a trip to town and purchased
(Editor's Note:—The following is the first of an exceedingly inter-
huosemaid hung up her colored birds
"This was an oversight on
Eteryleely is uneasy, apprehensive.
a full case of the ethrogim, which he
esting series of abort stories and sketches by Bernard Isaacs, superin-
my and fishes, and mother covered the
wouldn't trust to any express man, , part," Zeide indulged in self-accu so - walls with fancy bedspreads and N. Y. Evening
"Tkiah!"
tendent of the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, which will appear
Quot e,
tins.
"I
shouldn't
have
bought
from time to time in The Chronicle. These sketches were originally
Ile labors, but in vain. His face and brought himself.
so tablecloths .
Mond That British Policy
written in Hebrew and a number of them were published in Hebrew
Every year when he walked in with many. There was a scarcity this y ear
reddens. His talith rolls down his
But the new Succah was actually
in
ethrogim
in
town."
periodicals in this country and abroad. The present sketch by Mr.
shoulders. Drops of sweat roll down the ethrogim he was at a loss to find
, glittering and radiating. And in or-
Is Unchanged.
"And a good deal of the money is der to multiply its beauty there was
Isaacs, "Zelde and His Succah" appears in The Chronicle simultane•
his face. His cheeks puff out and he a suitable place for the treasured
ously with its publication in Hebrew in the journal Nimim (Musical
looks dreadful. He turns pale. Ile is case. No place was good enough, and yet unpaid," ventured my father to hung up a crystal lamp.
eRs
nE
:17
i- g. (2
Chords), edited by }fillet Bad, the noted Hebrew poet. Nimim is
taken down the platform, and led to after examining and rejecting each remark edgewise.
Zeide admired each object.
eb,e tA) , ri eay N understanding
.1h5.e.
the vestibule.
published in Berlin and circulated in Europe, America and Palestine.)
possible position he placed it tem-
The first night of Succoth we all camps
"Well, we must not do it again," re-
of
opinion
"in „hint, the
Zeide ascends, and blows softly, porarily on the table near the book solved Zeide.
ate in the new Succah.
American n Zionist movein•-•it
is
steadily, as usual.
case, where, by the way, it remained
Beautiful, light, comfortable! And
Of course, next year, right at the
He was not always the same Zeide.
a.
divided"
is
The point of the shofar, which Is
looked
' ,
• • •
over uccot .
close of Yoni Kippur, Zeide again h or- the reflection of the crystal lamp up,m
On Sabbath days, (or instance, he
ward to .
N ew York Evenin c
visible from under Zeide's talith, looks
of
the
colored
glass
panes!
It
was
more
ries
to
town
to
bring
a
case
full
Second day of Rosh Ha-Shanah.
took on a different appearance than
With the entrance of this case of
Post in an
ominous. And he "blows," and blows
The place of Rabbi Ilershel's son-in- ethrogim, the house at once asumed a ethrogim, and father assists him in like a king's palace than a Succah. 0 It k
op week days, and on holidays he was
iti(P
:srati e l aeris t i Q
softly, steadily. I heave • sigh of re-
his preparations.
Zeide didn't cease admiring it.
law is vacant. Everybody is strange- new air, a holiday atmosphere.
a., different Zeide altogether. Thr
lief. A load is off my mind. I feel
quo tes
But, after all, after all the comfort
ly worried and impatient. Zeide walks
Sabbath and holidays were actually
Although his top to town and his
Mon d;
safe. There is someone to lean upon,
Rut
Zeide's
main
hobby
was
t
he
there
was
felt
some
sadness,
a
certain
reflected in his face.
straight forward to father. "Neche- return with the priceless cargo was
someone to intervene between us and
myah, take the shofar. By the de- unheralded, the news spread through erecting of the succah. This hi d y , , heaviness in the air; Zeide's ,joy was Lloyd George, who told .i• audience
On the High Holidays he cast a re- Satan.
tentt•irtiec
ntihseetcst
cree of the fifth commandment, take some mysterious channels in a very task absorbed him ceispletcly. N „ t strained, unnatural, tercet!. He look- the American
vering dread upon everybody. Young
attitu d e
Before Rosh Ila-Shanah, Zeide is in the shofar!"
, ed more like a guest, like a stranger,
and old, small and big, every one re-
. gove rn.
rapid manner, and a stream of men ; only he, the entire family was Int
agitation.
"God
knows
if
I
will
be
a
h
.
meat
on
the
subject
of
than the head of the huose.
My head is swimming. A sea of began to flow into the house. These with making and adorning the slice
garded him with reverential fear.
•• Jewish
in Palestin e has not
"Do ym know, children, I—I will homeland
Zeide was the bahl tokeah, the one able to 'blow' this year!" A heavy heads wrapped in white and blue were, especially, young' men of the Even the non-Jewish maid was awe he
changed.
;4,
go
and
gloomy
cloud
descends
and
fills
hack to the old Succah," said Zeide
taleithim. Pale, frightened faces. idle newly-wed type who stopped on , till a late hour of the night designi
who blows the shofar.
After
Rosh Ha-Shanah. Zeide stands the house. We feel we are unsafe Blue candle flames flicker to and fro. their way from shut, with talith-sack and making paper birds, fish a n d ' the following morning, coming from
that 1•• thti-Zion.
ti
1111:''hHay
on the chazon's platform. All is quiet.. that danger is imminent. Zeide casts One short candle leans against a tall under arm, to examine Zeide's mer- other ornamental objects for t h e 1 shul. "You know, children," he he- ist pressure in Great
, i would
an
eyeing
glance
at
father
and
walks
gen
to
justify
and
one,
gnaws
at
it,
and
is
bent
on
ruin-
defend
his
deci-
have
to be much more p ,
A suppressed sigh, an isolated lonely
chandise.
...• ful than
out.
Father
turns
pale.
ry
succah. Suceah was an ordina
sion. "You know, I spent 40 Succoth
ing it, undermining it. Another min-
groan is emitted from the woman's
be t i h
The case of ethrogim is the center Succah, like all other Succashs, b at, , in it—yes, 40 Succoth. One gets used about
it h tthhw
s eo•rnepiutstleilaftiionn policy
In shut, before tkioth. All eyes are ute and it will collapse and fall in a
n a g
quarters. I raise my eyes and look
of interest. Everybody wants to get in my eyes, its beauty had no equ a l . ' to a place the some as to a living
t
furtively at my mother. She is dry- ;turned towards Zeide. He whispers heap.
c loses to it. Zeide holds an ethrog
so
lialf
fo
A
certain
holiness
encompassed
it
thing.
And,
besides,
how
will
I
be
or
u
m
r
into
Notah
Shockers
ear.
Notah
I
read
the
"lamnozeach"
again
Illyld
down
ing her eyes. Father, all wrapped in
and with two fingers, looks at it very ten-
i°, 1‘11,1
li
vening
and sonic mysterious power attract e d able to read my closing Succoth l'ost says thift the rapid . ,,•ti in of
hiq talith, motionless, is leaning over shakes his head in silence. Zeide ad- again. I read it with enthusiasm,
derly and examines it from all sides. me towards it. In my mind, Zeid c ' s Prayer that I kale the house and en-
with frenzy.
his machtur, and Zeide stands on the vances towards father.
the British garrison in Pal.. io with
"It is perfect! Flawless! Have Succah was the center of the u d_ ter the Sucrah," he remarked in a
Quiet.
Father reads the bahl
platform and reads the teahl tokeah's
"Nochernyals, you will 'blow' to-
consequent relief for the l., • sh tax.
verse.
semi-jocular manner.
tokeah's prayer. He reads and sighs, never yet seen one like it"
Prayer in silence. A deep sigh re- day."
payer, has taken most of I h• omit out
I was not the enly one who was in
"I will stay in the old Succah. You, of the campaign against He Zionist
He puts it aside. This is the fourth
veals his emotions. It is a fearful day
Father is Font. lie opens his mouth reads and groans. • • •
"Tkiah'"
reservation he makes.
fatuated with Zeide's Succah, All o or ; children, can go in the new one. It project.
of Judgment, and everybody is aware with ir:ent to speak and closes it.
ny 1,1 so nice! So elegantly furnished!
Father blows softly, steadily. He
of it, feels it. And it all depends or , His nether lip quivers. Everybody is
A young man lifts an ethrog out neighbors were in love with it. Ma
The editorial in part foliews ;
ho A real paradise!"
Zeide. The keys, so to say, are vest- whispering. It is fearful. Father blows and blows, exactly like Zeide.
of its cotton bedding with the some of them who had their own Succa
• • •
Arab hostility to this mot e.
resorted
frequently
Zeide's
Suce
, As long as Zeide lived we did not
ahi
ed in his hands, It an depends upon. fears to take Zeide's place.
gentleness and tenderness with which
went
has also given signs ,••' dacken.
use the new Succah.
On Succoth, however, he was a dif- one lifts a fledgling out of its nest.1 whenever opportunity presented tee
We all ate in
him.
There is a young man In Shul. ferent Zeide altogether. The oppres-
ing. One element among the Arab
h.,
the
old
Succah,
Zeide's
Succah.
And
I
took
great
pleasure
in
watt.
He holds it at a certain angle from I
"TEA!" a quirerirg woke satu- Rabbi Hirshers son-in-law. Ile is an
population
seems now to be
willing
rated with humility and awe rings! expert Kahl tokeah. But, can he sub- sive atmosphere of the fearful days, his eye and insnects it with the air of ing Zeide's face at the time when he
to co-operate with the ic,.; •ennt en t
which was saturated with tears, fears a specialist. "We shall take this one, received his various guests. The
through the shut.
stitute Zeide Can he fill his place? and sighs, has vanished completely,
under
which
the gradual r,,I.nation
were different stages in this reeeptio
Itch Itzel."
of moderate Zionist aims can be pro.
of his, which I used as a scale
mated without in fringing on native
measure the importance or unimpor-
rights. Concessions have come front
tance of the guest.
thf.:,,rohthere ,r,
When Notah Schochet entered—al-

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though a plain little man with a short
heard, at which he was in the habit
of pulling nervously, and every itme Trans-Jordan Ruler to Reduce
he succeeded in plucking out a few
Taxes and Establish Par-
hairs he flattened them out on his
liament,
paint and blew them with a zest right
into my face—when he entered, Zeide
JERUSALEM. — (J. T. A.) — Re-
at once raised his eyes, placed his red
duction of taxation and the convok-
handkerchief with his tobacco case on
ing of a parliament, two of the prin-
the open gemorah, smiled benignly,
cipal demands put forward by the
responded to his Yom-tow greeting
rebels, hove been acceded to by Emir
and invited him to sit next to him.
Abdullah, head of the Trans-Jordania
After ahrief exchange of words, Zeide
government, following the restoration
pulled out of his tattle drawer some
of order after the insurrection of last
lekach, a bottle of wine, and both of
th em partook in the refreshments week culminating in considerable
loss of life.
and examined for the hundredth time
The tribesmen's demands included
Zeide's esrog.
the establishment of a system of
"There are many degrees in mitz-
popular
representation, the expulsion
vahs" (commandments), remarked
of all foreigners, transfer of all im-
Notah, after he warmed up a little.
portant
posts
to natives, reduction of
"Rabbi Levi Itzchok from Barditchev
used to stay awnke the night before the officials' pay, discontinuance of
subsidies to loyal sheigs, cancellation
Succoth. The expectation of the mitz-
vah of Lulov deprived him of his of the debt standing against the cul-
sleep. This is the degree to which he tivators for non-payment since 1918
of the tithe.
reached! Ps! Ps! Some height!
The tribesmen's leaders regarded
And the mitzvah of Succah! lie was
wont to say that Succah is the only the parliament and tax-reduction as
mitzvah into which one actually walks paramount and Abdullah's yielding
these two points is looked upon as a
with his feet, boots and all."
"Pa! Ps!" responded Zeide, shook capitulation. The Emir scored, how-
ever,
in having the rebel chief either
his head.and HAM around the Sue•
cah in such a way as though he just deported or flee the country as the
head
of
the Belka tribe has done.
noticed it for the first time.
The situation in Aleppo, Northern
But when an ordinary men entered
Syria,
is
described as grave in conse-
the Succah, Leib Chaye's, for in-
stance, although he was a man with quence of the Arabs' dissatisfaction
with
the
French mandatory rule.
an appearance of a patriarch, a long
The natives are said to have Inti-
white beard, which reached to his belt,
mated
that
they wish for the return
and which, as the rumor went, was
combed each morning by Chayeh, his of the Turks in preference to the
French
administration
carried in
wife—when he entered Zeide didn't
even lift his eyes from the gemorah . from Beirut, the Syrian capital.
General Weygand, French High
After responding to his greeting with
a mere shake of his head, Zeide took Commissioner for Syria, is said to
out mechanically some cake, pushed s hare the alarm caused by the agita-
over the bottle, and didn't see him tion in Northern Syria. Ile presided
any more. Leibe tasted some of the a t a military council recently where
wine, ate some cake, smoothened down he stated he had decided to abandon
his snow-white beard and walked out. Aleppo "in the event of danger" and
"I am glad," I said to myself; "let establish a new line of French pos-
him not allow his wife to comb his session at llama.

beard! Such a disgrace for a man!"
It seemed that everybody liked
Zeide's lekach. It had a wonderfully
good taste. When he gave me a piece
of his lekach I blew off the layer of
tobacco with which it was generally
covered and ate it with great relish.
An his table drawer was always full
of it. lie used to bring pocktes full
from the circumcision parties. Zeide
was the town Mohel. He has natur-
ally done his work gratis. It was his
custom not to partake of the feast.
But, in order to taste something of the
sacred feast, he took along some
lekach. This is the cake which filled
his drawer.
eei
During
phe seven days of Succoth,
Zeide left the succah only to secure
some book.
Zeide's business was forestry, and
when his non-Jewish employes com-
pleted their daily work in the forest
they went straight to his Succah to
straighten up the accounts. I took
great pleasure in watching them.
They walked in, removed their caps,
sat down on the edge of the chairs,
and admiringly watched every one of
Zeide's movements.
Those clumsily powerful goyim,
with their sinewy hands and broad
shoulders, sat and behaved in the
presence of Zeide like innocent in-
fants.
When Zeide grew old, father took
over the business, and he was exceed-
ingly successful at it.
"We ought to build a new house,"
remarked father in a casual way.
"When one builds a house, the build-
ealennh
-----
, i ng of
I Zeide quoted an old precept,
Father took to the building of the
house.
In the evening father and Zeide rat
for many hours and discussed the
plans of the new house, and every
time the conversation led to the
Suocah.
"This will he a paradise!" both of
them agreed.
;
It will he on the second floor. All
I the walls will he made of glass. Small
eolsred window panes. The roof will
he salted by itself. autsmetieally.
"Father. you will be able to plitee
there the large conch instead of the
tittl e Rnfe of the
old Succah. There
will he plenty of room."
71-e.0 were pleasant e-eninew.
At the end of the month of Tams
tooth the heese end the Succah were
eomnleted. The latter was • veritable
palace.
At the close of Tom Kippur, Zeide
toil to father in a
faltering manner.
after el...eine his V•rost soyeral
times: ..V•so know, Ne^hemvsh, let
"t—let
e'en pet un the elf! Suerah.
;tater all. it It also a Sncesh. Let an
not it on Wv•st ham cen there be
In that? Let there he one more Stle.
-10 `." enske 7041e. and repeated him-

se ct

Father wee 'Bent, and the old Sur-
es ), sees ereotsd.

gerl y meet ;
morning father met

lade ceesyieo the small couch
and

Fosnilp.

"Let re lei the 1411• pan there
as ever,!! Implored Zeide. "I don't

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