For two or three minutes did these heart-rending moans resound--this cry of common sorrow which had issued from the Jewish heart.

The rabbi was unable to continue.

He stood upon the pulpit, covered his face with his hands, and wept like a child.
Similar political demonstrations in the presence of the Almighty were held during those days in many other cities.

In some places the Jews observed a three days' fast.

Everywhere the college youth, otherwise estranged from Judaism, took part in the national mourning, full of the presentiment that it, too, was destined to endure decades of sorrows and tears.
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