Impressions of a Journey
Insured
A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had studied, and concluded with fitting celebration, on their journey here. When they halted, not far away, the exilarch said, “Po-lin”—“Here stay” in Hebrew…
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