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• I from disease, cold and hunger. This that of a little boy studying the
'strengthened him in his sacred and Tshnud. It poured into his heart
devoted work. But the following a feeling of heavenly sweetneas
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' week Rabbi Samuel was again dis- which soon brimmed over and
turbed by his wife, who complained spread throughout his entire body
that Zalman had r•peatisl, and this with a delightful warmth. A light
A Story of the Old World.
time more fervently, his inexplic- in a distant window of a little but
able spilling of the water on the appeared and increased in bright-
flier. This made the rabbi think. ness until it seemed like the light
By W. D. MARGOLIN.
Who is this Zalman anyway? of Paradise, cur the light of sever)
Where did he come from? What suns.
! With creeping, inaudible steps a rumor which incited the deem, 'did all this menu? And again Rabbi
With one step he reached the
'the dusky summer-evening ap- emotions and aroused the greater Samuel stood before the mysterious
little hut, and with his first knock
' proached the little Jewish town, hopes in the hearts of the inhab water-carrier and pleaded with a on the door both the tweet voice
Nibovitz, Poland. The old, one and itants. From ear to ear it went somewhat uncertain voice:
and the heavenly light disappeared.
two-story buildings which were ar- from mouth to mouth, and from eye
"Zalman, a man must do..."
When the door opened, Zalman the
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ranged in several intersecting rows to eye carrying its secret news in
This time Zalman did not even water-sorrier in his usual outfit
huddled together as the darkness every whisper, utterance, and gen-
stood before Rabbi Samuel, who
let
hirn
finish.
With
a
mad
jerk
he
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increased, and a frightened glow ture.
picked up the buckets from the wet was surprised to see only one can-
trembled in their black window
For over two weeks Rabbi
Sam- floor and said in a low penetrating dle on the wooden table, the two
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panes casting a last glimpse at the
buckets and the yoke in one corner
setting sun. on the grey walls of chamber. It was said that he was
of
the
hut,
and
a
sack
of
straw
in
"Rabbi, when you do your work
!the Beth Il amidrosh, which was about to do great wonders, for he
the other corner. "I was not worthy
bath a prayer-Mouse and a place had found in the mysterious Cabala completely, I will do mine."
"Zalman, why do you think that of seeing the great light," thought
for learning the Talmud, were sil- the secret of Messiah's coming.
the old rabbi and looked humbly at
f
don't
do
my
work
I
t
houetted the slender ngures of two Some whispered that the ratite
Zalman.
boys, dressed in the traditional long could (oven converse with the an- asked the (old man, and a shudder
"Rabbi," echoed the water-car-
coats and round caps. They moved gels, and that every night at I2 went through his'soul.
"Tonight come to nly but at the rier's droop voice into the night,
quietly near the wall and finally o'clock, his soul ascended to the
extreme
end
of
the
town
near
the
"why
do you sit day and night in
seated themselves on the front steps heavens to convince the heavenly
of the building. An unbearable court of justice that the time has river; there I will tell you every- your chamber and busy yourself in
books?
Why don't you go out and
thing,"
urged
Zaltnan
and
disap-
silence groped in the darkness and come to send Messiah on this earth
help the frozen, the sick, and the
, was relieved only by an occasional to deliver the Jewish people as well I .
starving?
(lord gave the Torah for
Rabbi
Samuel
waspuzzled
and
sound of bubbling water which as all mankind from evil, hatred,
, came from the lazy, half-dry Hours envy and bloodshed; to rebuild dismayed. Ile could think of noth- the living and not for the dead.
ing
for
a
great
while.
The
echo
of
Yon
are
wise,
full of learning, go
river at the end of the Beth Ilami- Eretz-Israel (Palestine) and thoo
Zalman's empty buckets clattering
show them the way to happi-
drosh street.
Holy Temple, wherefrom the word against the door resounded in his and
ness. ,,
The air trembled suddenly with of God shall be carried to all na- ears. When he finally came to his
a faint whispering voice: "Joseph, tions, and peace anti justice will senses, a multitude of thoughts •heeks rolled down the rabbi's
and he exclaimed in a
, his can the world exist with so reign supreme. And in the small crowded into his mind ns to the strange voice:
much wrong, so much wickedness secluded chamber, his right hand identity of the mysterious water-
"Who
are you, Zalman; tell me
and so much injustice dwelling in thoughtfully sunk into the snow- earrhor. Nobody knew where 'Lal• wolior you are!"
the hearts of son? Why does not white heard. the large forehead man clime from. Ile appeared sud-
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"It will nu-an death to you."
Learning with wisdom, the eyes denly in town, yoke, buckets and
Goal destroy the world?"
"I consent!"
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"There are always some right- sparkling with prophetic justice,
immediately
after
the
death
of
And
an
echo
of
that
familiar
' mous men, David, for whose sake sat !traria Samuel with trembling lieb Zorach, a prominent Jew and sweet ringing voice answered, "I
'the world exists," answered Joseph heart working persistently over a great Scholar of the 1. 111111LO] Who, am one of the 311."
'quietly. The voice of the latter was massive books to find the secret having failed in business, did not
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choked with emotion. After a long charm word which could bring the because of his great modesty ask
"Joseph," asked David with big
, silence he continued, "My mother Messiah to God's suffering people. for help and died of starvation. inquiring (oyes, "Was he really one
told me that there are 35 Tzadikim
In the dark, gloomy corners of Neither (lid anybody know where of them?"
(righteous nen) for whose sake the the Beth Ilarnidrosh chamber, men Zalman disappeared every Friday
"Yes, David," whispered Joseph,
world exists. In the day they are spoke in low voices and their hun- afternoon, when the holy Sabbath "he was one of them. But he was
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plain ordinary people, but nt night gry eyes popped out with enthusi- approached, and where he ate his a revolutionary one. For, not being
they learn the Torah (13ilole) and asm over the high ideas of brother- Omar Sabbath meals. There was aide to see any more the great suf-
pray fox the sins of the whole hood, peace, and Ere'tz Israel, swal- no use questioning him either, for ferings of iris brethren he at.
,world; and there must always be lowing with emotion the choking all one could get out of him was tempted to bring the Messiah; and
air into their empty stomachs. a groan, a mutter, or a foolish gig- when he had finally found the
le."
And when one dies, what hap- Some of them hadn't eaten for a gling which re-echoed with some- charm word with which to bring
whole day and they did not dare thing mysterious and terrifying. him, a voice from the heavens an-
pens?"
'Then another one is born im- to go home to look at the pale, in- And now such bold speech.
nounced, 'The time has not come
G EORGE TIMMERMAN, Prop.
mediately in his place, otherwise nocent faces of the sick and starv-
Of courser, Rabbi Samuel would yet "Fhe next morning he was
'the world would be destroyed in an ing children, or at their weeping not go to Zalman's but in a cold found dead in his room among
wives. Deep in their hearts each winter night like this. But with heaps of thick books, and the book
instant."
And can you recognize one of cherished a hope that he would re- every approach of the day's end an over which his finger was bent was
ceive a share Of Zalman's daily in- ever-increasing terror filled his opened to page
the Ill when sru meet hint?"
: "No, And Ito must not tell, for come to buy bread and a herring heart. When night came, he put
The large prayer room of the
the one who hears it must die." which would bring My to his Wit Ile oon the heavy overcoat yith trem- Beth Ilamidrosh Was full of whis-
David gasped in amazement. Jos- starving family. hut they never bling hands, and leaning heavily pering voices. Through the snow-
crib bent over his companion's ear lest hope; soon enough floe Messiah on the clumsy cane, Rabid Samuel covered windows the grey sky sent
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and whispered, "They say that will come and then...then...what for the first time in many weeks in its last gloomy hark. The sil-
Rabbi Samuel is one of them." joy. what feasts, what happiness! went out into the quiet snow-cov- houettes of the two youths grew
"Yes," consented David, "all night
Winter came, and biting cold ered street.
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fainter as the darkness thickened in
'and all day he sits and learns; you joined cursed hunger in their suc-
Soon the low houses of the town the corner of the room near the
hardly ever SIT him on the street cessful attempts to bring sufferings disappeared, and the old man gazed large stove. At the long table piled
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to the wretched population.
or in the Booth llamidrosh."
fearfully into the (lark night and with ninny books sett a group of
It was already very dark. Faint
One (lay Zalman the water-car- white folds which lay before him Jews waiting impatiently for the
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lights twinkled in some windows, rier was seen running through the like an ellolallolla ghost. Ile rodd Moariv prayer (evening prayer)
and (rem the inside of the Beth narrow rows of the snow covered hardly distinguish the banks of the after which they knew Zalman
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illimidresh, HOW lit by several dim and frost-eaten houses, kneading Bzura, but he recognized the river would distribute his daily earnings.
kero some lamps, issued voices re- the icy snow with his hare feet' by the black hole where he sup- Near the door stiff with emotion
sounding with warm devotion the which were red and swollen with posed Zalman drew the water from. and his (woos staring at the black
evening prayer. The two boys hur- the cold. The frost had settled in Something like a sweet, hum sod- ceiling stood Zalman, the Mosliu-
ried into the building to join the his beard and peyes, drooping mus- denly reached his ears. It intensi- goner water-carrier of Nibovitz.
tache, and thick eyebrows. The rope fied second by second and grew into
worship.
Suddenly there emerged from the was drawn tighter on the same re- n clear ringing melody resembling
A beaten sondi or fears a reed.
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darkness a queer looking figure. It versed overcoat, and the red hands
was Zalman the water-carrier. seemed to clutch violently the han-
After the completion of his last de- dles of the buckets, and the rimless
livery of fresh water, he rushed to cap did not fall off his madly shak-
the Beth Ilamidrosh with the ing head only because it was
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wooden yoke suspended by the two frozen to the hair. A sudden bitter
empty buckets still on his shoul- impulse seemed to have awakened
ders. By the dim light of the win- this ignorant good-hearted Zalman.
From several windows, after
' doves One could distinguish Zal-
man's heavy and ragged winter having partially scrubbed off the
coat turned inside out and fastened frost from the pantos, pale-faced
to his exhausted thin frame with children looked into the street and
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an old hairy rope as a belt. The their shouts reached his ears.
WiiIII-out and half-wet trousers ad- "There he goes, there goes Zallean,
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hound at the ankles with strings. street, he stopped near a small
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stone:. each sten resounding like a Zalman ran Motor Rutile Samuel's
liquid splash. Ilis face could hardly house. The rabbitzen (rabbi's wife)
he seen, for most of it was covered rose with a cry from her knitting
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beard, the heavy mustache and the 'strange conduct she exclaimed,
long poyes (side locks) covered his "Zell- non is this the way t wane
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chin, lips and cheeks; and the wild into the rabbi's house?" Ile dal not
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hair that ran down from beneath , answer, but with an angry splash
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the ninths, cap covered most of the he emptied the buckets into the big \ ,
, fo orehend and Mined with the thick barrel spilling half the water on
the floor.
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"Och, mein Gott, what's the mat-
A countless number of times Zal-
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man the water-carrier pasted by ter with him? Meshugcner, tin:sh-
this house of worship to and from oji:toner!" exclamicol the rahltizen
the river bringing water inter every greatly terrified. She was about to
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house in town, and not failing in open her mouth again, when from
his duty in the hottest slimmer or beneath Zalma n's thick brows there
in the severest winter. It is ragged thither! at her such a force look
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appearance, stupid expression of that the woman remained stupetied,
countenance. a n d inconceivable and only the bang of the door awak-
good nature was the obiect of mer- ened her senses to find Zalman
riment and laughter of the whole gone. His looked haunted her all
town. I,ittle boy's shouted after day. It even prevented her from
Each month that slips by without BETTER
him "Meshugener" (lunatic), threw talking of this unusual vvent to the
stones after him. or stealing from neighboring housewives, as was
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Zalman returned to the river to re- amazement, and reproof : 11 ',iota',
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Zalman never answered. lie either , glasses with one hand over hi:
stunkd foolishly or mumbled some- forehead. Suddenly he rsniolinoal
thing under his nose.
Standing, gazing with a puzz led
Never did he take more than a brook at Zahn:in. The rabbi's small I
groshen (penny) a bucket, and stature booked as if hard, r e d ith
from t her poshest families in town something invisible, :tool II, I- tic
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ifor most of them were poor) he forehead was shri,Bool tel
refused to take even that little. like the leases of the old le, I. he
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Nevertheless, at the close of the studied, and the whim I-,ard
nay over a motile in groushens teemed whiter neeinst the ' , nook
iinttled in the Mg Mark purse fits- ratio traditional frarmooets. Pa:
t e e,• o l to his thick rope. This o at tieetly the rabbi heard Ii- eoo fon,
much for Zalman. With 17 complaint and then said :Lady,
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grooshens a day he could live like a "Zalman, every man moot do his
prince. A pound of bread, half a work completely and thoor otighly:
herring. and piping-hot tea was all and when you room} half the water
he desired, and 1S groshen was On the floor your work is n-st c- ni•
more than enough. Ile Was there- photo..." Patna Samuel finishad.
fore very charitable. After his and Wa‘ about to return to his
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work u-as done and the whole town room. Ile del net expect an an:
supplied with fresh water. Zalman tutor for he knew that Zalman,
came to the iteth Ilamidrosh leav- learned at he was and ignorant,
ing the yoke and huckett on the , never spoke, especially u•oold he
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threshold, and (list rilmted his (tr- not dare to treak to a man if loam-
ee, groosheas to the poor.
' ir.g. But the unexpected happened.
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The most needy finning
Zalman's eyes aCcUnioil a maoestle
were first too receive a share of hit look which the rabbi fo It' n hit al-
earnings. Secretly he pushed it ready turret back and caused him
into their hands and muttered to look hark:tarot
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"Rabbi," said Zalman in a
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Zalman was ignorant in matters strange and low trim, "when you
of religion. Ile could not even read Will 110 your work thoroughly, I will
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the Sidur (prayer book) nor did do mine."
he seem able to say any prayers by
A second later he was gone and
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heart, a thing the most ignorant left the old rabbi in a position sim-
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For several days Zalman be-
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own desire.
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