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IBN EZRA'S TROUBLES

The Cup of Elijah

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1Continued from ('age Eight. )

Translated from the Garman by Dr. M. Leo.

tively at Sarah. Was she really

Abraham Ibn Ezra was a humor
ist who wrote in Hebrew prose and
verse. Ile Was always in great
poverty and may be said to typify
Israel smiling with gentle humor
at misfortune. He laughed at his
thoubles thus:
"In vain I labor, all my toil is vain,
For never can 1 boast of riches'
gain.
The fates have frowned upon me
since my birth,
And failure is my portion here on
earth.
Were I to take the notion in my
head
To deal in shrouds the cerement,
of the dead,
Then to establish how ill-starred
am 1,

When I saw the performance Of ica. When Jessica remarks:
smiling?
"I shall be saved by my hue-
this play in Drury Lane, there
Ile put on his shabby coat,
stood behind me in the box a pale, band; he has made me a Chris. brushed carefully in honor of Yom
but very pretty British lady who tins."
Tov. Ile kissed Sarah tenderly on
Launctulot answers:
wept hard at the end of the fourth
"Truly the more to blame he; the forehead. Sighing, he passed
act and exclaimed several times:
into the street. How could he re-
The poor man is wronged." It we were Christians enow before; turn without--? Oh, the rumble
was a face of the noblest Grecian e'en as many as could well live, one of that elevated! How it grated
cut, and the eyes were large and by another. This making of Chris-
on his shattered nerves!
black. I could never forget them, tians will raise the price of hogs;
Service at the Beth Hamedrash
those large, black eyes that wept if we grow all U, In' par k - eaters, did not last long that night, for the
we shall not shortly have a rasher
for Shylock.
Seder awaited the worshippers at
on the coals for money."
But when I think of those tears
Indeed, with the exception of home. Reb Shemuel had not
I must add "The Merchant of Ve- Portia, Shylock is the most respec- spoken to Reb Eleazer. Ile had
nice" to Shakespeare's Tragedies,
purposely avoided him. Now he
table person in the whole play-
although the frame of the piece is
passed slowly, almost haltingly,
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decorated with the most merry
haltingly, along the paper-littered No man who lives on earth would
masks, satyr-pictures andamoret-
ever die.
streets. There were few pedes-
tes, and although the author him-
trians. Allen street and its en- Or should I try to make wax can-
self intended to give us a comedy.
virons had withdrawn indoors to
dles pay,
Shakespeare had perhaps the in-
celebrate Israel's exodus from The sun would shine by night as
From the Yiddish of Nathan
tention to represent for the enjoy-
Egypt. Lights gleamed in the win-
well as day.
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ment of the crowd a trained he-
dows of tenements, hideously ir-
wolf, a hateful fable-beast that
regular in the silvery moonlight. WE SHOULD HAVE
A PRAYER
KNOWN BY THAT TIME
thirsts for blood and loses thereby
Where the tumult of the market-
his daughter and his ducats, and is 0, Lord guide me up and down
place had raged but a few hours
at the same time mocked at. But In this great town,
Nathan and his sweetheart,
ago, Reb Shemuel should now hear
the genius of the poet, the world- With its myriad treacherous ways, his own re-echoing footsteps. Ile Rosie, were going to the theater
Its smoke and dust,
spirit which dwells in him, stands
lifted his eyes to the stars-those that night. He sat in the parlor
always higher than his private 0, guide me through its ways-
very stars that had shone for Israel of her home waiting while she was
In Thee I trust.
will, and so it happened that in
on that miraculous night. A tor- upstairs dressing. It seemed to
spite of the horible picture, he ex-
rent surged in his bosom. He be taking her an unusually long
pressed in Shylock the justification In the city and the tumult's sway, would-he must-tell Sarah the time to get ready, and so he called
of an unfortunate race which was Be Thou my stay;
out several times, "Please hurry,
truth. She would understand.
laden by Providence for some mys- Whene vile temptation shameless
SIV4NSW4WalsA1114W4IS
As in a laze he ascended the ir- Rosie, or we will be late for the
walks,
terious reason with the hatred of
regular flight of stone stairs into show."
Deceit and lust,
the highest and lowest mob, and
This irritated her, and she ex-
the gloomy hall. A fear suddenly
which not always repaid this hat- Where the wicked hunter stalks- clutched him. His hand was at claimed, "You certainly are annoy-
red with love.
In Thee I trust.
the knob. Ile trembled. His lips ing. haven't I been telling you
formed a prayer. Ile entered the for more than an hour that I'll be
But what do I say? Shakes-
ready in five minutes!"
peare's genius elevates itself even In the land where evil haS its fort room-his eyes partly closed.
Be my support;
"Gut Yom Tov, Shemuel!
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above the pretty quarrels of re-
hosts
of
Satan
ring
the
Friendship is love without either
Where
the
Sarah
came
to
meet
him
with
out-
ligious parties and his drama rep-
earth,
stretched hands. lie dared not flowers or veil.-J. C. hare.
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resents to us neither Jews nor
hypocrisy
look
at
her,
but
he
was
aware
of
Christians, but oppressors and op-
her fresh white kerchief and her
pressed, and the mad joy of the Hinders the right from birth-
tears fall upon her face -"an
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stiff white apron. Ile had not
I trust in Thee,
latter when opportunity offers it-
eshes ehayil"-the priceless jewel
moved,
self to them to repay their oppress-
the Psalmist sang of long agol-
"('ome, Shemuel!" She drew him
ors with interest for all the un-
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.WEEP FOR THE PAST
gently forward, standing between
Weep
for
the
days
that
are
gone
B11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111M N e ;ta uk : le Teturr iti t 'gis io tthre Le h OT rt :. For the days when the bright sun him and the Seder table she partly
hid from view. "Come, my Me-
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shone.
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lech, take your place."
Shakespeare shows in Shylock only
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"But, Sarah, I have-I have
a man whom nature bids to hate And the days that were dark as
the
night-
not the—" The moment for
his enemies, as he shows us in An-
tonio and his friends by no means They are gone, both their gloom confession had come. His tongue
and delight.
clove to the roof of his mouth.
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=
the
followers
of
that
divine
doe-
-
Words refused to come. Suddenly
= trine which bids us to love our ene-
-
Weep for the sun that has set,
Sarah stepped to his side. The
N
=7,
- mien.
It
will
rise
again-and
yet,
Seder table stood in full view. On
here
the
Christian
Where is
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Shemuel's right, as always, stood
= love? Truly, Shakespeare would Will the sun rise again for me?
f';' -''.
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may
the
morrow
Who
knows
when
_ . have made a satire on Christianity,
-Elijah's cup!
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be?
Shemuel passed his hand over
=
haul
he
let
it
be
represented
by
•' • -t, ‘ ..',
= those persons who hate Shylock but
his brow.
We haul Rubbish and Dirt
"Sarah-I-when—" Shem-
= who are hardly worthy to loosen
PRAYER
uel gasped unbelievingly.
= his shoe-strings. The bankrupt Light me, Holy Spirit,
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"I know, Shemuel-1 know all."
= Antonio is a soft character with-
On
the
trackless
way I roam,
I
Os
Sarah patted his trembling, wrin-
= out energy, without a strong power
-
Full with terrors infinite,
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kled hand assuringly. "Eleazer's
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for
hatred,
hence
also
without
a
-
And far from heaven and home. wife took me to see the cup her
-- strong power for love, a cowardly
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husband had bought. She did not
worm whose flesh is really good
know it was ours. When 1 saw it
E.. - : for nothing but "to bait fish with." Holy light, 0 guide me
Where waves on the sea shore -oh, Shemuel, why didn't you tell
The borrowed three thousand du-
-
moan,
cats, by the way, he never repays
me?" There was a sob in her
= to Shylock. Neither does Bassani() Oceans part me from friendship;
voice.
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Night, storm-I am alone.
"Poor Sarah!" Shemuel mur-
= refund the money; he is a regular
E7.1
mured, patting her gently.
= fortune hunter. He borrows mon-
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"Where did you get the money?"
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E that would enable him to make a
rich match and to capture a fat
Sarah laughed softly. Yet her
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'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio, who take me to be as big a fool
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By something showing a more k now what the right hand does first, but I thought it was best,
swelling, port
am reminded of Thoreau's per . and—"
Than my fait means would grant
Reb Shemuel stood bewildered.
inert saying, that in such cases
continuance:
what the right hand does is no t Ile gazed at the Cup of Elijah,
Nor do I now make moan to be worth knowing. Truly charitable more resplendent than ever in the
abridged
people do not speak of their be _ shimmering candle rays. Then he
From such a noble rate; but my
r looked at the devoted Sarah. With
, n eficent any more than a fiowe
chief care
oes of its perfume.-Alexande r a sob he gathered her frail form
fairly
off
from
the
great
d
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into his arms.
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"Sarah, you are-you are"-
Wherein my time something too,
his voice broke and Sarah felt some
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Ile
who
does
nothing
for others
wise not to hate money too much,
and for their poor friend who falls does nothing for himself.-Goethe.
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Beauty without virtue is a rose
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such a point? Ile was known and
loved by all Venice; his good
friends knew about the terrible
bond he gave and that the Jew
would not relent. In spite of all
this, they let one day pass after
another until the three months had
elapsed and with them all hopes to
save him. It surely would have
been an easy matter for those
friends, of whom he seems to have
had a great number, to furnish the
three thousand ducats in order to
save a life-and what a life! But
such a thing is always a little in-
convenient, and so those good and
loving friends-they are only so-
called friends, or, if you please,
half or three-quarter friends-do
nothing and again nothing and
naught but nothing. To he sure,
they pity the excellent merchant,
who formerly gave them so many
fine feasts, very much, but with
due convenience to themselves;
they scold Shylock with all their
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also be done without any danger,
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