But its significance has been gradually transformed; human nature, driven away with a pitchfork, has avenged itself by regarding the prayer as a mass, not without purgatorial efficacy, and so the Jew is reluctant to die without leaving some one qualified to say _Kaddish_ after him every day for a year, and then one day a year.

That is one reason why sons are of such domestic importance.
Moses had only a mother in the world when he married Gittel Silverstein, and he hoped to restore the balance of male relatives by this reckless measure.

The result was six children, three girls and three _Kaddishim_.
In Gittel, Moses found a tireless helpmate.

During her lifetime the family always lived in two rooms, for she had various ways of supplementing the household income.

When in London she chared for her cousin Malka at a shilling a day.