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The Golden Mountain, by Meyer Levin, [1932], at sacred-texts.com


p. 114

PRAYER

Once Rabbi Israel passed through a house of prayer. An old Jew sat there huddled over a book, reading in a hasty mumble, reading faster and faster, hour after hour.

Rabbi Israel said, "He is so absorbed in his learning that he has forgotten there is a God over the world."


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