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giitONK,t,
heads of tht Ktren Ilayesod, the rub
bi—his leader—and Ilaya his wife.
They were highway robbers who took
Jews from their homes to fling them
into desert. The others worked with
By JOSEPH HURGIN
a joyful will, so, too, their rabbi; he,
Reb David, alone, was spiritless. Each
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I day lie decided to go to his leader and
'ask for his money to be returned to
enable him to go back, but again and
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The Chassidim—Orthodox Jews of a mystic sect—are taking up farming again shame held him back. Then
came a night during the Feast of
in the Valley of Esdraelon.
The settlement of a Nachlath-Jacob and Avoilath-Israel have been estab- Tabernacles. The synagogue booth
lished by the Chassidim of Yablon and Kusinitz, the Keren Ilayesod was lighted; bottles of wine, and
cu b es , stood on the table, outside the
participating in the upbuilding of these settlements.
women pressed their faces against the
window; children ran about eating
One of the settlers volunteered to an orange plantation, in another a
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show me round the settlement, on
I wood. They hoped on the slope to nuts and playing noisilye. men
which his fellow settlers were at raise stone dwelling houses for them.; tinting whom were visitors who had
ROACH DOOM, RAT DOOM, ANT DOOM,
work. I confess my guide interested selves, the preSent settlement being come on foot and by train from Ilaifa
BUG DOOM, MOTH DOOM, FLY DOOM
me more than the sites he was point- 1 but a temporary one. The rabbi had !and from settlements in the Valley of
which, h ' Esdraeltou, liste ned to the rabbi, la-
ing out. Ile was it Jew, aged about many other schemes, the success of
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grand eur of phys ical
e told one depended on the spoke of the
r0, red-faced, with slightly grizzly
bar, of the divine spirit surrounding
beard, short of stature and rapid in health of the community, for which every newly-built Jewish house in
his movements, merry and valuable as he prayed to Ileaven, and on the Palestine. Alone he, Reb David, sat
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a woman. From the first moment of financial assistance of the Keren in his corner unmoved by these words
or Phone Us.
our encounter he rained words on me Ilayesod.
or by the merry singing. and drinking,
My erstwhile companlon and I re- which only served to heighten his
and in as open-hearted a manner as
if he had known me for years. Ile returned to the settlement, where on yearning for his old house. Ile
was not tilling that day, he told toe, a hill not far from it we sat down ; thought how the country outside the
because it was his turn to fetch the to rest, refreshed by a cool breeze door of the booth was sunk in night
water from the distant spring. "Oh! that was blowing round Mt. Carmel. and decay, how jackals whined like
a terrible business," he exclaimed; "I The huts at the foot of the hill looked little children, and how sunrise would
am surprised I have not had my bones more abject than ever; yet the see hint at work again. A short
broken by the jolting of the cart over dreams of my companion investet sleep, unsatisfactory meals, short'
the execrable roads. But patience; in them for him with a special loveli- prayers--and work. While than con-
due time the Zionists will have had ness. Just wait and see what ga r scious of sinning in his heart and ;
the water brought up to the settle- dens they would plant after their meriting the punishment of that!
ments and relieved us from these suf- houses were once built, was the tenor whale congregation in the wilderness
ferings. In Poland my new friend of his talk. Not an inch of the soil who would not believe God's word, I
used to be a shopkeeper; he had never left uncultivated. Palestine must be
he rabbi's since was suddenly heard,
in his life been in a village, still less adorned like a bride. Long enough! calling
alling to him. Amid a general si-
worked on the land; but on coming had she worn her widow's weeds. Yes,
he approached the rabbi, down-
lence
to Palestine he had learned overnight, long enough! Following this outburst , , cast and trembling. Looking straight
as it were, the intricacies of farming came an angry glance at me, in case at him, the rabbi spoke: "I see you'
and husbandry. Was I surprised? Ile I had a mind to contradict here. II I are filled with sorrow, Ruda David. I
was surprised himself. It was a won- marveled at his dreams. How had understand the reason for it, but you
der deed. How in his day did Joseph they come to this Jew of the Exile. must know that it is a sin to feel
the Just accomplish his wonder of this Chassidic shopkeeper? Hew sad on a Feast Day, and a for greater
learning 70 languages in one night, came he to occupy his imagination Sill here in Erez Lrael. Be strong,
as tradition relates? Ile assured me with trees and flowers? Ile himself Reb David," he continued, raising his I
he could now drive a cart like any could not explain the matter to me. "'ice' as
Rub David, remained I
he,
carrier, dig like a born farmer, keep In the Goluth such things might seem . with his eyes fixed on his feet, "sit
guard at night like a regular, and forbidden by his creed, but in Pales- close to me rind let us drink and sing.!
eat tomatoes and olives like a born tine he need only look upon the land Yours is the sin of the spies. You
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Palestinian. The last word was ac- to straightway feel the desire to ; i are weakening the resolve of the con_ I
companied with a loud, hearty laugh, adorn her with trees and flowCrs, gregation," and how he saw the rab-
so pleased was he with his saying. I The soil clamored for it. Yes, so it In's kind eyes hardening- like steel. At
looked into his bright, greenish eyes. is. ... We sat on this hill for about I last he made answer: "Rabbi, I know ;1
Their honesty made me believe that an hour, yet I never tired of listen- ! but what can I do? I am weak. I
this wonder had happened as he said. ing to his trustful, voice chatterer, a I cannot conquer my longing for my!
old home. It is probably the devil'
Having seen the settlement, we quaint contrast to his wild beard.
Among other things she told me I in me, but I cannot help it." '
I
walked some distance to observe the
of an experience he went through !
colonists at work. They were drain-
The rabbi gazed downwardsas if I
during his early days in Palestine. He '
ing marshes. The words of their had been so very happy on starting !listening to far-away voices. Looking;
leader, a pale rabbi with dreamy, out for Erez Israel, dancing at the I up he replied in a quick, dry voice:,
benevolent eyes, filled me with en- railway station, dancing on the train, , If so, Is you want to go back?"
thusiasm for the manner in which the on board ship. Were they not coln.; Reb David remained silent. I --
"So," said the rabbi, his voice
men toiled in the fields in the sweat
ing to live in the Holy Land, to sit I
of their brow, while all in the small,
I filled with a tender sorrow: "You l ,i'
each man under his own vine and fig
bare huts was yet in toho vabobu. tree? Alas, the first time he walked I are not worthy, Reb David. You be-
We already feel something of the among the miserable houses, saw the . long to that generation of the desert
I
glory of the first day of creation."
desolate country, felt the great heat,1which would not believe God's word..
The workers, standing ankle-deep the devil within hint spoke in his Do not be downcast; you are not
there is the decree of heaven
in the watery clay of the canal bot-
head, He was sorry he had ever conic.
toms they were digging, were half
in this. Tomorrow I will arrange your!
And he thought: Oh; Reb David, why ' I
accounts and return you your money
hidden by the ancient shrubs with
are youlo sad? Are you not fulfill-
and you can go back." No sooner!
which the field was covered—the
ing thecommandment which orders
had he finished speaking than as
middle-aged Jews, with long beards,
you to dwell in Palestine? Are your
though anxious to forget what had'
and coatless, their "zizioth" flapping
the
soil
of
your
own
-
e
passed,
he broke into a merry song
gaily over their mud stained 'gar- feet not treading
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country? But all to no purpose. Like
ments. The dreamy-eyed rabbi was a ghost the sadness—God save us accompanied by fervent rhythmic I
right; something of the glory of the from Ruch—moved about in his head movements of the body, which those,
present began to imitate, children as
first day of creation resounded in '
and heart, as did the mosquito, which
well. Leaning again the wall, shame!,
the strokes of the spades, in the
(
legend says entered one day the brain
I swing of the hairy arms; a something of the Emperor Titus, never to come and joy chased through RebDavid's ,
. which tempered the broiling heat and out more. Ile began to be homesick heart. A sense of ners.nal discom-
fort in that bright cheerful room sent
desolate air of the place. For a long
after his old shop and his old haunt
him out and hurrying along until he I
while I was happily employed, looking
where reposed the graves of his
came to an empty space before the
at them and looking at the black
fathers. A melancholy settled on
fertilt clods, while the rabbi expound- him. And how could he, Reb David, administrative °thee of the si tt ,-
'
ed on the science of drying marshes. a sick man and sorrowful, whose ; MOIL Ile sat down on a boulder.!
I noted, too, that he knew a great health was at the mercy of every gust !The singing sounded faint. Ile heard .
deal about building work, and about of wind, of every bodily affliction- ! the taps which watchmen gave on the I
mosquitos and malaria. Ile had been how could he extract his daily bread . ground with their sticks and felt glad
at the thought of having no more to
twice down with malaria but consid-
from this hard, cruel soil? How live' '
ered that of no consequence. Ile in an arid desert, like a savage ac- I expose himself as a watchman to the
asked me whether I realized how fer- customed to wilderness? His anger cold and dangers of the night. Het
tile and beautiful the surroundnig went out against those who had per- would g o home, reopen his shop and',
l l d . bn e c made, once it was suaded him to come to Palestine; the be a man as other men. One can be
ai ry . coun
1 I cdirtunnt(d
spot he visualized
I a good Jew and merit eternity even
_ 1
I in the Diaspora.
Suddenly it seemed a tire broke out
in the sky opposite hint. The moon
burst forth large and slightly reddish.
Ile did not know from what moon-
, tab the moon was rising, whether the
!lemon or the Lebanon, but it was
glorious; everything had become sil-
vered over, animated and friendly;
the mountains appeared to be bowing
their heads before the Deity; and in
thh deepening gloom it was possible —
to imagine the sky lauding the great-
ness of God. Wrapped thus in fear
and adoration, there came to his rec-
ollection such another night in his old !
town during a Pogrom, with a moon
s
as large and white as this one, shin- '
ing on the slaughter of Jews, the ;
Formerly the
plunder of houses. Ile and his fam-
ily were hiding in an attic, peeping
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illy the light of the 51(10n which they
feared might betray their presence to''
the murderers.
The memory of that night assailed
him in force. Those had heen awful
minutes and hours, crouchnig in the.
attic fearing for life, and Mom! cur-
dling had been the cries—the cry of •
the daughter of their blacksmith!'
neighbor, Rub liar, who was tortured
, and hanged at his door. A sense of': ,;t-t
satisfaction fell upon Itch David. Ile , i
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was harpy to he hying amongfriends.
amon g the f aithful, far awayfacftrom.
ion!,
th at a ttc. T h e sense of sat is
gr ew stronger every minute; a love
' pervaded hum for this country, this 10
• new home. A new heart had been
given him by God. And the longing
for his old home turned into a loath- %
ing. Unto this day Reb David won- 1
tars without understanding how this 1 g
change came upon him. It was mitt',
other won Ikeo quh i,,c,k:hya
the
up from his stone and ran
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rabbi called out for more wine. Reb
David drank deep that night. Never
had he felt happier. The others were
glad with him, were rejoiced that a
heart of Israel had been saved, and I
no one more so than the rabbi.
Ending his story, my guide assured
me he had never changed his mind
since that night. Ile knows now he
has a e , untry and that the Keren
Ilayesod wil (help him with credits
for erecting his house and develop- ;
still, he knows that the Watchman
hand is Michael and Gabriel on my
over Israel sleeps not not dreams. Ile
meat of his farm, and more important
left." And began to laugh, on pleased
was he with himself for this quota.
repeated the saying: "On my right
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