• self and went to the clubhouse where the communal leaders were enjoying a game of cards. Seeing the great rabbi enter, the players made an attempt to hide their cards. "Keep playing," shouted the rabbi, and he sat by them un- til they finished and then ap- propriated the winnings for the widow's rent. Is Gambling in the Bible? tolerant one. One evening, a widow came to Rabbi Akiba Eager of Prague lamenting that on the morrow she would be evicted from her home. She could not pay the rent. Rabbi Eager immediately left for the offices of Kehilla in Prague to raise the rent, but on arriving there he found it deserted. He bethought him- By DAVID SCHWARTZ I do not think gambling as such is mentioned in the Bible. The Book of Samuel does refer to a practice of the young in competitive target shooting with bow and arrow. I don't know whether there wen any bookies around taking bet on whether Reuben or - SiM07 would win. Maybe they were 'ike the story told of Bernard F ,ruch. He was once asked whet' .er he was in- terested in racirr . "Yes," he re- plied, "I am i• erested in the human race." Maybe the ( trly Jews were more interester in the human race. I suppc e in a society where everyon has his tract of ground and Is self-sufficient there isn't th .• urge to make a quick „killing -,o gain a fortune overnight. T7 .ere is no need for it. Security assured. By the ti ie of the Talmud, when the ec )nomic pattern had become mor distorted and com- plex and much of the early equality had vanished, gambling had come into being. Card playing among the Jews of Spain apparently en- joyed quite a vogue. By a strange freak of history, it also took on a religious sig- nificance. The Marranos' fre- quently brought cards along with their Bibles and prayer books to their places of wor- shop. If the agents of the In- quisition were seen approach- ing, the Jews would quickly close their prayer books and begin playing cards. But apparently there were many Sephardic Jews who used cards for other purposes than to shield them in the observance of their faith. Indeed- one of the most famous Jewish schol- ars, a rabbi and poet as well, Leos} of Modena, was well known as a gambler. He was the type; of man to whom gambling is a disease. He knew all the arguments against it. As a matter of fact, as a young man in his teens, he had • written a tract against gambling which was something of an international best seller. It was translated into Spanish,. French and German. He wrote first-rate Hebrew poetry and composed first -rate Biblical commentaries, but every now and then the gambling fever would seize him—and like a drunk and his bottle he would flee to his cards. He was brought to financial ruin by his gambling and, finally, was excommunicat- ed by the Jewish community. 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