Finally the little rabbi found a chance to speak, and his first concern was not about general principles nor the large issues that were beginning to loom over the Galilee. After they were driven from the Holy Land they went to Spain. From solid entrenchments the red-capped soldiers of Iraq, the black-and-white-crowned Lions of Aleppo and the warriors of the Grand Mufti fled. ' It was this Rabbi Bag Huna who offered the famous definition of a Talmudic scholar: He should be able to concentrate
It's your discovery. Worst of all, he was required both by law and by custom to live within the Judenstrasse, which in Gretz was a concentrated horror. ' As he spoke, this thin, sallow man of forty communicated to all his conviction that the Jews would win. Bible and an equally deep distrust for institutionalized religion as they had seen it operating among the Jews of Galilee.
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