Yiddish Tales

meal? Especially at Passover, when there is so much to say before the meal and after it. Rikel the maid handed the water, we washed our hands, repeated the Benedictio

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and my mother said, "Favele, you should be careful eating fish, or you might be choked with a bone," while she gazed at our guest with awe

Bes inverted. It is apparently their cu

on his red cheeks, and his beautiful black eyes rested on us

land only to be reached across seven seas and a desert, the desert journey alone requiring forty days and nights. And when you get near to the land, you have to climb a mountain of which the top reaches into the clouds, and this is covered with ice, and dreadful winds blow there, so that there is peril of death! But once the mountain is safely climbed, and the land is reached, one beholds a terrestrial Eden. Spices, cloves, herbs, and every kind of fruit-apples, pea

y father asked her

on't they bring some over here? They coul

translated the answer

en you leave the country, you must leave everything in it behind, t

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g you on a tree, or they