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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 27:20-30:10.
Prophetical portions—Ezek. 43:10-27

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February 22, 1929

Unity and Understanding Must Govern Hospital
and Center Issues.

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The postponement of the planned drives for a Jew-
ish hospital and a Jewish Center to house a Y. M. H. A.
and Y W. H. A., and the serious disagreements among
Detroit Jewish leaders over the most important com-
munal problem ever to face our Jewish community,
call for calm deliberation and unbiased consideration
of our needs. Tlie serious demands that are being
made for the building of both these centers, and the
insistence with which friends of both movements are
determined to impress the needs of these upon the com-
munity, speak well for the idealism of the leaders of
both movements. Such idealism and public spirit spells
an excellent beginning for two great movements to fill
two important local needs. In order, however, to make
these two movements successful, it is important, above
all else, that there be unity of desire as well as unity
of action for them, and to create such unity of desire
and action should be the first responsibility of the men
behind the hospital and center ideas.

The situation is very excellently summed up in the
leading statements which we publish elsewhere in this
issue. The men who play a leading part in the func-
tions of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, in
their anxiety to maintain unity in local Jewish ranks,
preferred to postpone campaigns for both the hospital
and the Jewish Center for the sake of not antagonizing
either of the elements. With these postponements,
leaving open only the possibility of an independent
campaign by enthusiasts for a hospital, there remains,
between now and the spring of 1930, when the cam-
paigns for both buildings may be launched, one impor-
tant task: that of educating Detroit Jews to the needs.
During the coming year it will be necessary to dissemi-
nate all the knowledge and facts available with refer-
ence to the questions of the hospital and center. A
sincere study of both- questions, both for and against,
will do more for both movements, if the needs are
actually as great as many of us believe, than could any
other premature effort.

The discussions of the past two weeks have already
opened the eyes of many in the community to one
great need which was taken for granted but the filling
of which was evidently delayed because it was taken
too much for granted and because there was too little
propaganda for it. We refer to the need for a Jewish
Center. A number of friends of the hospital movement
now express doubt as to the possibility of success of a
campaign for a center to the exclusion of provisions for
a hospital; and it is certain that friends of the Jewish
Center idea would resent a drive for a hospital to the
exclusion of an effort for a Y. M.-Y. W. H. A. building.
Mr. Butzel's statement, which is one of those published
elsewhere in this issue, refers to the manner in which
the Center idea was neglected, and it is well that such
neglect be avoided in the future in a campaign like the
present in which the center-hospital ideas are being so
closely interlinked by their respective friends.

The issue is clear. We must first have an educa-
tional campaign to enlighten the Jewish community on
the existing needs. As a result of education we may
hope to attain unity. To the ends of attaining both,
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle dedicates its columns.

The Curse of Publicity.

All of which proves that publicity not only has its
benefits, but also its curses. Miss Samuel, it will be
remembered, came to this country last year with an
Oxford University commission to study our educational
institutions and methods. Her return this year, for a
second visit, had for its purpose another study in which
she was seriously interfered with by unpleasant public-
ity stunts. If our newspapers were only a trifle less
sensational, and a little more human, the unpleasant-
ness to which Miss Samuel was subjected could have

easily been avoided.

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A Unanimous Vote for the J. D. C.

In response to Mr. David A. Brown's questionnaire,
mailed to 100,000 Jews throughout the United States
and Canada, and to editors of all newspapers published
on this continent, the response of the newspapers, at
least, has been unanimous in favor of retaining the
identity of the Joint Distribution Committee and of the
continuation of relief measures for the poverty-stricken
Jews of Eastern Europe.

At the same time that Mr. Brown has mailed out
his questionnaire, and since its publication, reports
have reached this country of very appalling conditions.
in Bessarabia, Russia and Lithuania. There are millions
of Jews in these centers whose economic condition is
so distressing, and whose lives depend so much on the
bread that may be sent them from this country, that no
effort in their behalf can possibly come too soon.
Leaders in this country and in Canada who feel
for the unfortunates overseas dare not entertain the
thought for a single moment of scrapping the J. D. C.
machinery. Furthermore, in view of the existing con-
ditions, they dare not delay aid to those who cry not
for luxuries or conveniences in life, but for bread. An
effort should be made in spite of possible complaints
that we are having too many drives, that "we are tired
of drives." It is well that Jews be reminded that in
the long run they have not given near enough to what
is expected of brothers, and by our own flesh and blood
which is on the verge of death.

We recall the story of the Jewish beggar who ap-
proached a passerby for a donation and the latter told
him that he had no change with him, but that he would
be back shortly, when he would give him something.
To which the Jewish beggar replied : "My good man,
if only you knew how much I have lost in my lifetime
by extending credit!"

It is well that we remember that there has been
more talk about campaigns than actual effort, and even
the gigantic accomplishments of the Joint Distribution
Committee in raising eighty millions of dollars for war
and post-war relief is not sufficient to match the misery
suffered overseas. We have been extended credit much
of which we have not paid.

One thing is certain: that help must go forth at once
for unfortunate Jewry overseas, and the J. D. C., pos-
sessing as it does the best machinery to facilitate such
relief, must not only not be ruled out of existence but
must be given strength to go on.

Sammie Makes an Appearance.

For five years Sammie Reshevsky, who was at the
age of eight a world chess prodigy, had not been heard
from and was practically forgotten insofar as the out-
side world is concerned. During these years, however,
he was, in his own way, a very active boy who pursued
his Jewish and general studies and who early this
month completed his high school course. This Thurs-
day, for the first time since his so-called "seclusion"
from public life, he made an appearance again, this
time not only as a great chess player but also as a good
student and fine singer.
Sammie's retention of his finest qualities, which, we
are told by his teachers and close friends, have been
improved upon during the past five years, speaks well
for the men who took a hand in his training and guard-
ed him zealously against the dangers that might have
come as a result of too much attention by the outside
world. Remembering the old proverb that "youth and
white paper take any impression," the men, here and
in Chicago, who took an interest in him, guided him
through a course of study, prepared for him a musical
as well as chess career, and have, at the same time,
made certain that he would prepare himself for a pro-
fession in life. Here is, therefore, an important ex-
ample of how a prodigy may be saved to greatness.
With apologies to Sammie, we are compelled to
make a comparison. Seven years ago the boy was so
spoiled by his medals and the public attention shower-
ed upon him that it was impossible to approach him or
to Converse with him for two minutes. Too many hon-
ors and too poor an education generally as a result of
his travels for exhibition games threatened his entire
future, until several public spirited men took him in
hand and guided him to his present achievements in
his studies as well as in his music and chess habits.
Sammie's case reminds us of the warning of Brown-
ing:

You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear never to kiss the girls.

Sammie, at eight, had one hobby ; he was a spoiled
"fellow eight years old." Sammy at eighteen, with the
proper guidance, shows promise of a great future. If
only all our prodigies could be similarly guided!

New Decalogues.

Miss Nance Samuel, daughter of Sir Herbert Sam-
uel, former High Commissioner of Palestine, came to
this country to make a study of the conditions under
which the shop and other working girls live and labor.
In order to best familiarize herself with the subject of
her studies, she got herself a job as a salesgirl in Alt-
man's Department Store, Fifth avenue, New York.
No sooner, however, did it leak out that the scion of
an important Jewish family was working as a plain
shopgirl, than she was besieged by newspapermen, and
'the publicity given the news of her new occupation
drove her to resign her job less than a week after she
first took it.

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Several weeks ago the Rumanian anti-Semites pub-
lished a set of ten rules which govern them in their
hatred of the Jewish people. Last week, the German
anti-Semites, not to be outdone by their Rumanian
friends, published a set of laws of their own, in which
they proclaimed the Jews to be a negative force to be
wiped out and compiled a series of Ten Commandments
which wind up in the declaration that "one can only
be a slave of the Jews or an enemy of the Jews," and
that "he who shields the Jews commits a crime against
his own people."
Such oft-recurring competition with the Decalogue
of Moses, handed down from Sinai nearly 3,500 years,
is proof that mankind has not yet learned the lessons
of the greatest of all codes of righteousness. It is
proof of the fact that people have learned to interpret
their religions according to their own needs, not accord-
ing to the ethics of humanity at large and the brother-
hood of man.
The one great consolation that one must feel in
reading the new murder-inciting decalogues is that
they are not the philosophy of Christianity but of indi-
vidual Christians whose minds have become poisoned
by hate.

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"THE MENDELSSOHNS"

By RABBI LEON FRAM

In looking over the editorial colunuis of the Boston
Jewish American, I discovered something that warmed
the cockles of my heart, and I hope the converted Jews in
Baltimore who rose in more or less righteous wrath
recently because I criticized the value of Jewish conver-
sions to Christianity, will read what a distinguished
Christian minister has to say on the subject. In fact, all
missionaries to the Jews, if they are wise, will take the
statements made by the Rev. Dr. Edward Hunt, director
of America's Goodwill Union, to heart and profit by them.
Dr. Hunt said:

"I indict missionary work among Jews," says-
Dr. hunt. "I indict it on the score of of its futil-
ity. One must search far and wide for a bona fide
Jewish convert to Christianity. Those that we do
have are merely social climbers, seeking to sell
their birthright of Israel for a cup of afternoon
tea.

Moses Mendelssohn, so the legend
goes, was walking along the boule-
vard in Berlin on a pleasant sum-
mer afternoon when the king's
carriage drove by. Frederick the

Great, so the legend goes, ordered
the carriage to stop and he alighted
in order to have a few words with
the hunchbacked little Jewish phi-
losopher who had been nicknamed
the "Socrates of Germany" and
whose newest book on "The Im-
mortality of the Soul" was just
then the best-seller in Europe.
Said Frederick to Moses: "Where
are you going, llerr Mendels-
sohn?"

Said Moses to Frederick :"Your
Majesty, I do not know."

"I indict it on the score of its costliness and
waste. Let the Christian church use the funds
which are being literally thrown away for this
purpose and devote it to bringing Christianity to
the many nominal Christians, who are living with-
out God today.

"Beware, Mendelssohn," threatened
Frederick, "do not presume upon
my affection for you. I have asked
you a friendly question, where are

"I indict it because it is un-Christian. Anyone
who believes in the hand of God n history must
glimpse His purpose to preserve Israel and once
more establish them in the land which their fathers
made the Holy Land for Jews and Christians alike.

To this Moses answered, "Your
Majesty, I have answered in the
only friendly way I know. I have
answered the truth. I do not know
where I ant going, for no man
ever knows where he is going."
No Man Knows,
This was more than the hot-tem-
pered hero of the Seven Years War
could endure. He signalled to one
of his men and Mendelssohn was
arrested and taken to prison. The
next morning, so the legend goes,
Frederick the Great repented of
his haste and he went in person to
the prison to get the little philos-
opher out. As Mendelssohn came
out of his cell, Frederick awaited
him and Said
"Now, see, Mendelssohn, why was
it necessary for you to be so per-
vers•? Why did you have to anger
me? When I asked you, where
ore you going, why could you not
have told me and saved yourself
and me all of this trouble?"

"I indict it because it is un-American in that it
ignores the value of the synagogue in making
godly citizens and in the furthering of many good
causes for the betterment of the community."

If we were not forced to take cognizance of certain
practical situations and could afford to wrap ourselves in
a mantle of pride and consider with contempt whispering
accusations that are made against Jews, it would seem
inadvisable to comment on a news item such as was
sent to me the other day from Zanesville, Ohio, by a
constant reader of this column. We hear a lot about the
undue proportion of Jewish doctors and lawyers who are
not ethical in the practice of their professions. 'Some
readers will exclaim: "Why bring this up?" I not not
bringing it up but, refusing to be an ostrich, I am men-
tioning it and dragging it out into the open because that's
what's whispered about us. I do not say it is true. But
that is a part of this burden we have to bear as Jews.
And I must digress just a moment to relieve my feelings
by saying that while I do not believe there are propor-
tionately any more unethical practitioners among the
Jews in law or medicine than among Christians, yet, we
have too many Jews who are a disgrace to their people
and to their professions. And I would be the first who
would like to see them scourged because they add to the
already too heavy load the Jews of the world have to
bear. And it's a job that the Jew himself should do. But
to hurry along to the letter I received:

A young surgeon on the staff of the Jewish hospital
in Cincinnati is given credit for saving a boy from almost
certain death from a skull fracture, or at least a life of
suffering from paralysis.

It must have been a very unusual case, for the Toledo
News-Bee devoted a half a column to telling the story.
And among other things it says that "a young surgeon,
whose professional ethics does not permit his name to
be used is given credit for performing the miracle that
will raise the boy from his deathbed."

Now if the nasty whispering wasn't no constant it
would never be necessary to refer to this incident of a
young Jewish doctor who certainly would be helped in
his career if his fame were mentined in connection with
such an unusual surgical achievement. But he did what
not one out of a thousand young doctors, regardless of
whether they were Christians or Jews, would have done
in like circumstances. But he thought more of his pro-
fession than he did of advertising himself. And he hap-
pened to be a Jew, and that's why the story is being
told here.

I see that George Arliss is "doing" the "Merchant of
Venice." No first class actor is satisfied to retire from
the stage until he plays the role of Shylock. Even David
Warfield hail to do it, although despite his last efforts he
became at time a combination of the "Music Master" and
the "Auctioneer." Warfield had too much heart in his
voice to play the shrewd and hard Jew of Venice. Ile
was kindly. The other day I was discussing the play with
one of America's most distinguished dramatic critics,
and he insisted that the Jews should not take any offense
at the presentation of the "Merchant of Venice" be-

cause "Shylock is the only gentleman in the play." I
said that I heard that before. And if it were possible to
give each one in the audience a printed statement to that
effect it might lessen the prejudice. But unfortunately
low brows as well as high brows attend Shakespearian
plays, college students, high school boys, too. And it
requires a most discriminating intelligence to give the
Jew his due. So I was forced to disagree with my friend,
"Shylock" has come to mean a pretty conscienceless
character in life. And most folk who attend the play
usually carry a prejudice against "Shylock" to the
theater with them and they take it home again. So
speaking from a Jewish standpoint I hope the day will
when the "Merchant of Venice" will die and stay dead.

That was an interesting gathering of JewsoProtest-
ants and Catholics in New York the other day, trying to
find out why they couldn't get along together. It was
said that Jews couldn't get a university post in a mid-
western college. Whether that's true or not I don't know.
I happen to know that there were Jewish professors at
Wisconsin and Michigan and in Washington universities.
But I suppose those universities would not be considered
"mid-western." But I do know of at least one Jew who
changed his name and held for many years a professor-
ship in a mid-western college. Generally speaking, how-
ever, it is difficult for Jews to hold full possessional
chairs in universities, north, south, east or west.

you going, can't you answer in a
friendly way?"

"But, Majesty," said Mendels-
sohn ,"I insist I was right. You
asked, 'Where are you going?'
and I said, 'I don't know.' Hasn't
it been proved that I was right?
When I started out on my walk
yesterday afternoon, did I know
that before the day was over I
would land in prison? No, take it
to heart, Your Majesty, no man
ever knows where he is going."
This little fable which has at-
tached itself to the story of Men-
delssohn may be said to typify his
entire career. Ile kept taking the
road without knowing where he
would end up. Ile left his town
of Dessau to go to Berlin and study
to be a Rabbi. He turned out to
be a philosopher instead. Ile pro-
ceeded to give all his strength to
the writing of philosophic works,
and throughout his life he must
have believed that if he would be
remembered at all it would be for
his philosophy. But practically all

his writings in philosophy are to-
day hopelessly out of date and
worthless, and he is remembered

only for that work which he was
himself never conscious of doing
—the work of liberating his people
from the bondage of the ghetto.
The writings which he thought
were so important have left no per-
manent trace in history, but the

sharm of his personality, which,
hunchback and stammerer that he
was, he never believed in, wrought
the permanent emancipation of his
people from political and social
disabilities and to his sole claim to
historical immortality.
He did not know where he was
going. Ile introduced the Jews of
the Ghetto to German culture. He
had proved in his own life that one
could be a strictly Orthodox Jew
and at the same time also a cul-
tured German. But after his
death his daughters kissed the toe
of the Pope, his grandson com-
posed Masses, and led by his own
sons and daughters, fully half of
the Jews of the ghetto of Berlin
deserted their faith and went over
to Lutheranism or Catholicism.
Ile did not know where he was go-
ing•
One day he was invited to a

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ing came the most beautiful docu-
ment over written in behalf of
the Jews—the instrument which

brought freedom and equality to
the Jews all over Europe.
No nun knows where he is go-

ing. No now knows by what ac-
cidents he may achieve his highest
ends, what utter oblivion may at-
tend his most carefully planned
life's work, and through what tri-
fles, on the contrary, he may be-
come memorable.

A Symbol of His People

Early one morning in the year
the watchman upon the
tower of the gates of the city of
Berlin heard the knocking of a
cane. Ile looked down to see a
little hunchbacked tramp. Ile
looked down upon a face that was
the face of an old man.though it
was carried on the body of a boy
only fourteen years old. Little
Moses Mendelssohn, ugly of face,
crooked of body, heavy of speech
was knocking at the gates of Ber-
lin and stammering his request for
admission. To the watchman that
little "fantastic" must have seem-
ed to symbolize the people to
which he belonged. For the Jews
of Germany of that day, the eigh-
teenth century, were in it very sad
case. They were an aged people
whose very children were old with
the burden of sorrow. They were
a people who had been so long con-
fined in narrow quarters, no long
hunted and harried and humiliated
that they had become ugly and de-
formed and heavy of speech.
There is nothing in the world
so repulsive as a persecuted people.
If you want to dehumanize human
beings all you need is to deny them
friendship and freedom. It is only
the poets who say that persecution
brings out noble qualities. Prac-
tical men such as watchmen can
see with their own eyes how per-
secution long maintained brings to
the surface only deformity and
ugliness. But there was one thing
the watchman did not know as he
looked deprecatingly down on the
aged little boy—he did not know
that the mind within that shriveled
body vibrated with eagerness for
knowledge, thirst for beauty, hun-
ger for ideals. In this, too, the
hunchbacked little Moses symbo-
lized his people. Segregation, isola-
tion, humiliation, poverty may have
distoTted their bodies but had not
been able to rob them of that rich
tradition of prophets and singers
and sages which had come down
to them from the days of their
freedom and glory. That shabby
little body supporting that great
rich mind was knocking now at
the gates of Berlin, symbolizing
the straining of the ghetto Jew to
enter fully and equally into the
life of the new world, that world
of democracy and science and art

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that was then emerging like a
dawning sun out of the heavy mist
of the Midde Ages. Moses was

outwitted into the city for he had
a letter to Rabbi Frankel, who a
few months before had been called
from Dessau to head the Jewish
community of Berlin.
Ile was appointed as private tu-
tor in the home of the silk mer-
chant, Bernays. Later on he be-
came bookeeper for the silk-mer-
chandizing firm, and this job was
the height of his financial ambition.
Ile was secure in his livelihood
and could devote all of his leisure
hours to study. He gave up his
rabbinical studies and devoted
himself to the fundamentals of
European culture. Alone in his
room he studied English, French
and German. He mastered the
Greek and Latin classics, absorbed
the whole of contemporary mathe-
matics and science and philosophy,

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Gems From Jewish Literature

Selected by Rabbi Leon Frain.

THE BEAUTY OF THE
TALMUD
"Scripture ordains that the He-
An interesting suggestion was made that Jews should
be discouraged from entering the field of law. Too ' brew slave who 'loves' his bond-
age, shall have his ear pierced
many Jewish lawyers, it seems. Out of proportion to
against the door-post. Why? Be-
the population. Rather a poser, that. It seems a dis-
cause it is that ear which heard
tressing situation to ask our sons who might be unusually
on Sinai. 'They are My servants,
gifted in that direction to abstain from taking up law.
they shall not be sold as bonds-
Pretty hard to make an engineer or an artist out of a
men:'—They are My servants, not
chap who has the inclination for and who has his heart
servants' servants. And this man
net on being a lawyer. Surely there must be some other
voluntarily throws away his prec-
way out. What holds true of law holds true of medicine,
ious freedom—'Pierce his ear!'"
but what shall we do about it? Gets rather irksome this
running into a barbed wire fence every time we want
to do something. That's why I said a few paragraphs
"Be of them that are persecuted,
not of them that persecute. Look
back that the Jews who are in those professions should do
the best job they possibly can and not indulge in those
at Scripture: there is not a single
bird more persecuted than the
miserable practices that serve to bring the whole Jewish
people into disrepute and make possible a program of
dove; yet God has chosen her to
be offered up on his altar. The
definite discrimination against their fellows who want
bull is hunted by the lion, the
to follow in their footsteps.
sheep by the wolf, the goat by the
tiger. And God said, 'Bring me a
A group of representative citizens throughout the
sacrifice, not from them that per-
state are trying to have the Blue Laws of Pennsylvania
secute her from them that are per-
modified. It's hard work, because lawmakers dependent
secuted.'"
upon votes are usually afraid of the big noise that's made
by the intolerant church element. I say "intolerant
"Bless God for the good as well
church element" for I would have you know that there
as the evil. When you hear of a
are actually in my judgment more Christians who want
death
say, 'Blessed is the righteous
sensible
observance
and
who
are
not
interested
in
forc-
a
Judge.' "
ing everybody else to live and to think as they do. I
always like to quote Christians to prove my position in
"Prayer is Israel's only weap-
these matters, as I have done in the following paragraph.
on, a weapon inherited from its
fathers, a weapon tried in a thou-
There was a Ilelfinized resolution before the Senate,
sand battles."
which, of course, means an anti-American resolution. In
discussing it, Senator Tydings of Maryland had this to
"The reward of good works is
say among other caustic things:
like dates: sweet and ripening
I am tired of this so-called "Christian" ele-
late."
ment that would crucify its fellow man as a tenet
of its faith. There is no love in that kind of
"The dyeing benediction of a
Christianity. It springs from hatred, and is all
sage to his disciples was: I pray
un-Christlike as anything which can be conceived.
for you that the fear of Heaven
It is the work of the ignorant brain—a brain un-
may he as strong upon you as the
tutored in the suffering of all the centuries
fear of man. You avoid sin before
through which mankind has struggled to win for
the face of the latter; avoid it he-
itself a place of liberty in the sun. It is but •
fore the face of the All-seeing."
continuance of the plan to substitute man's plan
•
for God's plan—to substitute the code of law for
"If your God is a 'friend of the
the Bible, the bayonet for the helping hand.
poor,' asked a pagan, why does
That's plain talk and necessary occasionally.
he not support them? Their case,

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beer-house to play chess with a
shabby author known to be the
boon companion of soldiers and
actresses and other dregs of Ger-
man society. Out of that game of

a sage answered, is left on our
hands, that we may thereby ac-
quire merits and forgiveness of
sin. But what a merit it is! the
other replied; suppose I am angry
with one of my slaves, and forbid
him food and drink, and some one

goes and gives it him furtively,
shall I he pleased? Not so, the

other replied. Suppose you are
wroth with your only son and im-
prison him without food, and some
good man has pity on the child,

and saves him from the pangs of
hunger, would you be so angry
with the man? And we, if we are
called servants of God, are also
His children."

"He who has more learning than
good works is like a tree with many
branches but few roots, which the
first wind throws on its face;
whilst he whose works are greater
than his knowledge is like a tree
with many roots and fewer
branches, but which all the winds
of heaven cannot uproot."

"Love your wife like yourself,
honor her more than yourself.
Whosoever lives unmarried, lives
without joy, without comfort,
without blessing. Descend a step
in choosing a wife. If thy wife is
small, bend down to her and whis-
per in to her ear. He who for-
sakes the love of his youth, God's
altar weeps for him. He who sees
his wife die before him has. as it
were, been present at the destruc-
tion of the sanctuary itself—
around him the world grows dark.
It is woman alone through whom
God's blessings are vouchsafed to
a house. She teaches the children,
.speeds the husband to the place of
worship and instruction, welcomes
him when he returns, keeps the
house godly and pure, and God's
blessings rest upon all these
things."

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