Like the river Sambatyon, even the flames of Hell rest on _Shabbos_." "Haven't they got no fire-_goyas_ ?"; inquired Ikey, and everybody laughed.
"_Shabbos_ is a holiday in Hell," Moses explained to the little one.
"So thou seest the result of thy making out Sabbath too early on Saturday night, thou sendest the poor souls back to their tortures before the proper time." Moses never lost an opportunity of enforcing the claims of the ceremonial law.

Esther had a vivid picture flashed upon her of poor, yellow hook-shaped souls floating sullenly back towards the flames.
Solomon's chief respect for his father sprang from the halo of military service encircling Moses ever since it leaked out through the lips of the _Bube_, that he had been a conscript in Russia and been brutally treated by the sergeant.

But Moses could not be got to speak of his exploits.

Solomon pressed him to do so, especially when his father gave symptoms of inviting him to the study of Rashi's Commentary.

To-night Moses brought out a Hebrew tome, and said, "Come, Solomon.