The Yoke Of The Thorah

rlioz has taken great liberties with Goethe's text-quite alter

ine, "because I've never read 'Faust,' and I hav

like fate to 'Wil

d I didn't know whether there wa

lor's is beautiful. Y

very deep and obscure-very hard to under

ld get the story and the human nature. I believe

the story? Won't yo

ould only

er ignorant of the plot. So, during their luncheon, Elias related as best he could something of the love-story of Faust and Margaret. Christine lis

ain how Berlioz has tampered wi

from her hair. Lambent fires burned in her eyes. There was no music that Elias would rather have heard, than the music of her voice as she talked to him. They had the car to themselves for the first few blocks; but then it began to fill up with ladies, and at last chivalry compelled Eli

d hold of her, and bore her away, like a blossom upon its bosom: he, thanks to the beautiful girl who was seated next to him, and whose eyes kept smiling into his, and whose breath for one priceless second fell upon his cheek. Every most trifling incident of that afternoon somehow engraved itself upon Elias Bacharach's memory. Long afterward he recalled it all: how Christine was dressed, the shape of her bonnet, the color of her gloves, the fragrance of the rose that she wore in her breast; how he had wrapped her cloak about her shoulders when she complained of a draught; how she ha

e had promised, on the cur

own and dine with us, M

please," urg

me. The concert has lasted longer than I thought it would; and

from her. Now, as he saw her departing further and further away, it was like the gradual extinction of the light and the warmth

s study. They exchanged a few quiet words of greeting, and then sat motionless, without speaking, as though waiting for something to happen..The daylight slowly faded. By and by a star could be made out, shimmering through the window. Both of these men rose to their feet, and put on their hats. The rabbi lighted a candle, and, with ha

bi suddenly, "you read on

lace. Elias took it, and read mechanically, pronouncing the

daughter shalt thou take unto thy. son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall destroy their altars, and

teronomy,

upon the face of the earth,'

r nightfall had come the Je