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Children of the Ghetto

CHAPTER III
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Solomon translates into Yiddish the whole Pentateuch with Rashi." "Yes, he may know _Terah_" said Malka, not to be baffled.

"But he'll never know _Gemorah_ or _Mishnayis_." Malka herself knew very little of these abstruse subjects beyond their names, and the fact that they were studied out of minutely-printed folios by men of extreme sanctity.
"He knows a little _Gemorah_, too," said Moses.

"I can't teach him at home because I haven't got a _Gemorah_,--it's so expensive, as you know.
But he went with me to the _Beth-Medrash_, when the _Maggid_ was studying it with a class free of charge, and we learnt the whole of the _Tractate Niddah_.

Solomon understands very well all about the Divorce Laws, and he could adjudicate on the duties of women to their husbands." "Ah, but he'll never know _Cabbulah_," said Malka, driven to her last citadel.

"But then no one in England can study _Cabbulah_ since the days of Rabbi Falk (the memory of the righteous for a blessing) any more than a born Englishman can learn Talmud.


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