Thou shouldst have more sense, Meshe; _thou_ belongest not to my family.

Why can't Solomon go out with matches ?" "Gittel's soul would not like it." "But the living have bodies! Thou rather seest thy children starve than work.

There's Esther,--an idle, lazy brat, always reading story-books; why doesn't she sell flowers or pull out bastings in the evening ?" "Esther and Solomon have their lessons to do." "Lessons!" snorted Malka.

"What's the good of lessons?
It's English, not Judaism, they teach them in that godless school.

_I_ could never read or write anything but Hebrew in all my life; but God be thanked, I have thriven without it.