At last one turned to the other and said, 'Knowest them what, Moses?
If the Holy Father does not arrive soon, we shall be too late to say _mincha_." Levi laughed heartily; the reference to the Jewish afternoon prayer went home to him.
"That story sums up in a nutshell the whole history of the great movement for the conversion of the Jews.

We dip ourselves in baptismal water and wipe ourselves with a _Talith_.

We are not a race to be lured out of the fixed feelings of countless centuries by the empty spirituality of a religion in which, as I soon found out when I lived among the soul-dealers, its very professors no longer believe.

We are too fond of solid things," said the poet, upon whom a good breakfast was beginning to produce a soothing materialistic effect.

"Do you know that anecdote about the two Jews in the Transvaal ?" Pinchas went on.