Why aren't you in synagogue? I'm working to hold back the Arabs, the old Jew replied, and no argument that Rebbe Itzik could advance sufficed. At the end of 1879, improbable as it seemed, Hacohen, this in- conspicuous Jew from Vodzh, had seven differe But why? I am afraid. The little shoemaker, then sidy years old and with a white beard, sat sternly at his bench as the leaders of Safed gathered about him.
How dazzling the sea-girt city was that cold afternoon, gleaming in the late sun, its many towers pointing downward to the riches that awaited the conqueror. He fumbled and bumbled his way into one catastrophe after another, need- lessly sacrificing hundreds, thousands and scores of thousands of the finest soldiers of Europe. The man we are talking about does not seek good luck. e except the hearty horseplay of the Middle Ages, preserved in Germany long after it had vanished e
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