'
'There were giants in those days,' said Rabbi Zimri; 'we are children
now.'
'The first chapter makes equal sense, read backward or forward,'
continued Rabbi Maimon. 'Ichabod!' exclaimed Rabbi Zimri. 'And the
initial letter of every section is a cabalistical type of a king of
Judah.'
'The temple will yet be built,' said Rabbi Zimri. 'Ay, ay! that is
learning!' exclaimed Rabbi Maimon; 'but what is the great treatise on
"Effecting Impossibilities" to that profound, admirable, and----'
'Holy Rabbi!' said a youthful reader of the synagogue, who now entered,
'the hour is at hand.'
'You don't say so! Learned Miamon, I must to the synagogue. I could sit
here all day listening to you. Come, David, the people await us.'
Zimri and Alroy quitted the house, and proceeded along the narrow hilly
streets to the chief temple of the Hebrews.
'It grieves the venerable Maimon much that he cannot join us,' said
Rabbi Zimri. 'You have doubtless heard of him at Bagdad; a most learned
doctor.' Alroy bowed in silence.
'He bears his years well. You would hardly believe that he was my
master.'
'I perceive that you inherit much of his erudition.'
'You are kind. If he have breathed one year, Rabbi Maimon will be a
hundred and ten next Passover.
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