[The Promised Land by Mary Antin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Promised Land CHAPTER VI 9/59
His emotion is beyond speech.
He turns and leaves the room.
In his perturbation he even forgets to kiss the _mezuzah_[2] on the doorpost. The pupil feels reproved and yet somehow in the right.
Who _did_ make God? But if the rebbe will not tell--will not tell? Or, perhaps, he does not know? The rebbe--? It was some time after this conflict between my curiosity and his obtuseness that I saw my teacher act a ridiculous part in a trifling comedy, and then I remember no more of him. Reb' Lebe lingered one day after the lesson.
A guest who was about to depart, wishing to fortify himself for his journey, took a roll of hard sausage from his satchel and laid it, with his clasp knife, on the table.
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