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do every year before the Seder." had not not yet shown a way. Heb 1
Red Shemuel did not reply. He Shemuel's head was bowed as he 0
sat down mechanically, stroked his walked slowly back from morning
long white beard a moment and re- services at the Beth Ilamedrash.
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By MOLLIE GOLDBERGER
garded the cup. Then he took The last blow had fallen. lie had •
With a deep sigh, Reb Shemuel would bring them tomorrow after some of the soft cloths that lay on hoped to approach Reb Eleazer,
the
table and began to polish it the Gevir of the community, for a a
o
closed the bulky, time-worn volume he has taken the things over t
of Talmud over which he had been the Shoot?" Shemuel's reply was tenderly. Sarah went into the confidential loan, a gemiles chased, g
tiny, uninteresting kitchen to pre- until after Pesach. But then he
poring for hours, and removed his impatient. Sarah remained silent.
Chassidim rarely speak at length Pare the evening meal. As Reb had heard the man speak of some 0
gold-rimmed spectacles. Ile placed
cl Reb Shemuel Shemuel continued to polish the scoundrel to whom he had lent
e n oo n
his right and opened the window at was a Chassid. The sages prom• tarnished surface of the cup its money without security , and now
•
which he sat. The incessant din iced Gehennom to those who din- exquisite engraving of Biblical the man was gone! Never again $
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and inscriptions were slow- would he lend money without se-
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of Allen street suddenly forced it- coursed with their wives when they figures
and more distinctly revealed. At curity, not even to his own IA
self into the dingy, barely fur- should have been studying the IY
even intervals around the cup tiny brother! Reb Shemuel was in de- d
Torah,
and
Reb
Shemuel
ran
no
niched, though scrupulously clean
Besides, the question of silver birds with silver wings out- spair. The only alternative lay in 01
risks.
room.
stretched were poised for flight. asking the "Kehillah" for charity. A
It was early spring. Even Allen m a tzos and wine was his concern. From the beak of each dangled a Ile suddenly raised his head. Se- • •
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street had caught some of the Ile passed silently out.
What fiend was again A
tiny silver star. In the center of curity.
balmy exuberance in the air. Its
Reb Shemuel, for all his tacitur- each star twinkled the tiniest dia- tempting him with that diabolical L _ — _____
manifestation was in groups of pity, loved with a tender affection mond. Reb Shemuel sighed remi• idea? Ile walked on faster.
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noisy, laughing children, who his gentle, smiling, shadowy Sarah, niscen fly as he fondly held this
He came to his own stoop. Two
danced ecstatically to the mono— whose pale, wrinkled face shone relic of former prosperous days.
arms
women,
tonous jingling of a hand organ genially from the snowy kerchief The cup he had received fro his slovenly-dressed
had laden with Pesach bundles, sat in r .
in the paper-littered street before that encircled it.
h She was the fat er. . Then, each year, itm
A shrill one cheer in his lonely life, Men a whim of his to add some Judgment on a neighbor.
Reb Shemuel's door.
"Such a life on me, as she needs
from a nearby stoop called She recompensed him for the chil- thing of value to it. Thus he had
We thank you for your patronage and assure you that
to one of the children. Its peri- dren he had buried in the little added the birds, then the stars and matzos from the Shul," one stated,
for the coming year we will render you an even better
odic clattering of an elevated train cemetery far back in Russia, and then the diamonds. That was his emphatically shaking her head.
service
as it rumbled across the dusty also for those who had drifted into own mystic way of glorifying the "You should see the way she goes
structure that blotted out God's other cities and forgotten their Prophet-Guest for whose hos- dressed."
"Yeh,"
the
other
affirmed.
"You
blue sky from Allen street old parents save for an occasional pitable reception this cup had
drowned the laughter of the chil- letter. Her presence made the always been net aside. How he can't never tell now. Them that
dren, the sound of the hand or- dingy, cheerless three boxlike had always gloried in removing needs help ain't got the naive to
gan and the woman's voice. But rooms in the dilapidated Allen the cup of Elijah from its soft cot- ask. And the Azas Ponim—he
the children danced on. They were street tenement a home for him. ton wrappings and polishing it in gets."
el h passed quickly
not disturbed by the elevated. It But he rarely spoke to her of those readiness for the Seder! But Reb Sk e
into fife di m ly u lit
had been their lullaby at night and things.
their alarm clock in the morning.
It was because he loved Sarah now—
"Shemuel—the matzos? I don't
Sarah had entered again and
It was part of the restless, rumb- that Red Shemuel kept from her returned to her watch and chain. know why I ant so worried. I—",
line, monotonous rhythm of Allen the reason the necessaries of Pe- Reb Shemuel frowned. Woman's These were Sarah's first words to
street life. So the children danced sack had not yet arrived. Never ta. nity! They were at the brink him as he entered.
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should she, the wife of Itch Shem- t poverty—of disgrace. And
on.
Reb Shemuel s expression was
WE DELIVER
Reb Shemuel sighed again, uel, who had been honored and re- Sarah polished the golden orna tortured.
Within his heart there was gloom, spected as the Shochet and Talmud went she always pinned no proudly
They will be here at 3 o'clock
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deep and impenetrable. Had he Chochim of the community for on her only black satin dress when today, Sarah." His voice was
lost his trust in God—that faith , over 25 years, know that he had they went to Shool on Yom Toy. colorless.
which three score and ten years of not a dollar in the world 48 hours But as he looked at her he soft-
"And the wine?" Sarah per-
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study and devotion to the Torah before the first Seder. Accept aid ened. Should he begrudge her the sisted.
lie—Reb one relic that bound her to a once
same't
had bound inextricably ab ---Sr.is from the Kehillah?
"The wine, too," came the sa
heart strings? No, his faith was Shemuel? No, never.
happy past? The watch had been colorless response
unquestioning. But there were
Reb Shemuel sat down at the
His sight had been failing him a bridal gift from her mother in
during the past few years. The , Russia. No, for all the world window. The fiend was there attain
times—
"Shemuel, look." The voice of exacting regulations of Jewish fit- would he deprive her of her watch with his diabolical temptation. $
his aged Sarah, who sat silently sal forbade any slaughtering by a and chain.
Just for this one year's Seder! But e;
looking upon the tumult below Shochet whose vision could not
;k.
"Shemuel are you finished?" would Reb Shemuel live to another
from the other window, suddenly guide the knife unerringly. Red
Sarah was asking him to come into
broke upon his thoughts. "Look, Shemuel had ceased to be a
i l ave not ordered a
le i l He , ' I ld
Se "Shemuel
there goes Reb Shloime carrying Shochet. He had taken to selling the kitchen and partake of the chicken yet. I have no—"
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frugal repast on the table.
Sarah gazed unbelievingly at e!
She 'matzos' and wine for Pesach." Hebrew books, but had not suc-
his
"A little while more, Sarah."
`
e pointed out a stooped, shab- ceeded very well. In his home
low. It Shemuel. He tore himself from the f
little,
voice was
low
e
uel's
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bily clad figure shambling along now there lay some very valuable Rob Sh al
too. Ile was now chair, rushed to an old trunk in '40
under a burden of bundles. old texts he had been trying to sell shook a
little
a
h . corner and took out
hi ng the gilt interior of Eli- box.
"Everybody said he would not have to a wealthy man in the neighbor- Polishing
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Yen as he e rubed
b
it t , x,
enough money after the illness of hood. But the transaction had lay's cup. Even
I forgot, Sarah," he explained. $
ently
he
seemed
transported
far
his wife for matzos. Did he have failed—only a week before Pe- g
sach! Ile had been worried—des- away to Russia back in the remote "I pulled off one of the little stars
to get help from the Kehillah?"
Ile saw from Elijah's cup when I polished
past of . his boyhood daYs
Reb Shemuel knew Reb Shloime perately worried—lest the coin-
it. , I'll tgiveXiethoenthe
•
, a venerable
bl • patriarch,
moony, w hi c h still re g arded him his father,
on
had to accept charity.
d in kingly dignity at the '
seated
"And what if he did?" There as a Baal Habayit, should find out
e e r a
w the l
ur n wteht l to
e Sarah returned
Seder table
table. Ile heard him read Draier."
the
was an angry note in his reply. his dire straits. But God would e
n
a
clear,
triumphant
i
voice
the
i
"Is it a sin to be poor?" He arose show him a way!
That
victorious exodus of Israel from
from his chair at the window. "Is
When he returned from the Egypt. The children gasped as he matzos and the wine and the
it a transgression to take help synagogue that evening, Rob
po of the miracles God had chicken Reb Shemuel had ordered.
Shemuel found Sarah sitting at the ske
"Shemuel!" Sarah haltingly ap-
from the Shool?"
cloth wrought for His chosen people.
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Had Sarah looked at Reb She- shaky old table polishing
wi h the red
a gold That same cup of Elijah stood on proached the stooped figure that
muel at that moment she would and tenderly .
have been puzzled by the pained watch and chain by the unsteady the table, but without its little sat poring over a bulky volume. "I
expression on his wrinkled face flicker of the small Some above birds and stars and diamonds. The —may I--can I have some more $
her head. Near the watch and door was opened for the Prophet- money?"
But she did not.
" Yeh, Sarah, all you want."
in
"Shemuel, will they bring our chain stood a massive silver cup
Spirit Elijah. The children sat in
awed silence. No corporeal form Shemuel's hand twitched as he
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matzos and wine today?" Sarah of rare design.
handed
d Yet they seemed to feel faintly. Sarah a bill. Yet he smiled
F or Yom Toy, Shemuel," she
asked a few minutes later, as She-
intly.
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moat was passing out on his way , explained, with a faint smile. a spiritual presence. They looked
"—
I
want
to
buy
a
new
white
see if the wine in Elijah's had tablecloth. I can't bear to put
to the Beth Hamedrash for Mincha. "Here," she moved the cup toward to
become lower. But it had Elijah's cup on that old one.
• "Did I not tell you the boy him, "polish Elijah's cup as you had not
t
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Reb Shemuel smiled as "he re- 1—"
Reb Shemuel closed his eyes s
' called one Seder and its dire con-
moment.
Then
he
nodded
his
ap-
sequences. He sad his brothers
had joined in a mischievous prank proval. Sarah passed out on her
errand.
with some of the boys at the Che•
It seemed to Reb Shemuel
We take this means of wishing our friends and
der. When the door was opened
to admit Elijah, one of the young- hours—interminable hours—that'
Customers
sters, an orphan boy, who had no he sat thus, gazing unseeingly at
Seder and no home, was to scam- the Erev Yom Toy crowds on Allen
per into Shemuel's home clad in street. Suddenly two familiar fig-
a ghostly white sheet and make ures crossed his vision. One was
hideous noises. The plan had his wife. The other was the wife
worked to perfection. But Shem- of Reb Eleazer. What were
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uel remembered the result vividly, they—? Oh, he remembered
now. They sat next to each other
though 60 years had passed.
For years Wechsler's Kosher Restaurant has stood for quality
I Another Seder stood out in in Shoot on Rosh Hashanah and
and service. It is our aim to further the some service and
Shemuel's shadowy recollections Yom Kippur. And, besides, Reh
more fully serve our hosts of patrons. You can always meet
Eleazer had promised to keep his
of childhood. The crops had
some of your friends here
failed in the little Russian fron- secret. The two turned the cor-
tier village. The peasants were in ner into Delancey street. Where
We Cater to Wedding., Parties and Banquets
dire want. Many had no matzos were they going? To buy more
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and no Seder for Pesach. Shem- Yam Ton bargains, Reb Shemuel
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uel's father was the owner of a decided and turned to his Midrash.
The preparations for Pesach
large estate. Hunger had not yet
Shuel
em
te- were almost at an end. Sarah
Ititts hohmee.
w, when the door was setting the table for the
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= was opened to admit the wander- the Seder. Reb Shemuel was get-
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=' ing spirit of Elijah, his father ti,og ready for Shoot.
"Shemuel, what about the—" ,
called out: "Enter, all ye needy,
= and eat." A group of shabby, bun- Shemuel anticipated Sarah.
"The cup? Yes, I will get it on
= gry peasants had shuffled in plead-
= ingly. The family had gone away my way." Shemuel glanced fur-
from the table and left thes.2. , (Continued on Page Eleven.)
strange guests to eat their fill.
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= Shemuel had looked puzzled, until
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his father explained to him that
Ei this was the real significance of
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= opening the door to admit Elijah,
A Happy New Year to You
=, the champion of the poor and the
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needy.
It
is
the
moment
when
the
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= more fortunate is to invite his
needy brother to join him at the
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Seder feast.
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Wishing All His Friends a Happy and Prosperous New Year
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"Shemuel, are you coming"
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Reb Shemuel lingered just a
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= into its box. Suddenly he stopped.
If You Don't Get My Prices—
= He arose quickly. What was this
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insane idea some fiend was dang•
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= rather he would— But God
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= would show a way. He went into
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— But the morrow came and God
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