The Genius of Judaism
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The customs of oriental nations are stationary as the human mind seems to remain among them. These sealed meats, mean and trivial as the custom may seem, work a mighty result ; for they serve to manifest the local existence of Judaism to some Jewish stranger. I can illustrate this fact hy a curious anecdote. In a manuscript in my possession, which contains the history of the flight of some Spanish Jews from the inqui- sition about two centuries ago, in making the first port they could they land...ed at Embden. Without friends, and with no knowledge of the country, the wanderers stood lost, not knowing whither to direct their steps. On entering the city they met a lad carrying a goose with a label annexed to it " in charac- ters well known, " observes the cautious me- morialist. By the Hebrew word hasher they instantly recognised the lad to be a Jew : a THE GENIUS OF JUDAISM. 157 discovery inspiring the emigrants with infi- nite joy. They followed the lad home, and, although their Spanish was not intelligible, the sealed meat served to guide the foreigners to their secret purpose, which was that of re- ceiving the most solemn rite of Judaism from the hand of an Israelite, which they had found impracticable in catholic Spain.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The customs of oriental nations are stationary as the human mind seems to remain among them. These sealed meats, mean and trivial as the custom may seem, work a mighty result ; for they serve to manifest the local existence of Judaism to some Jewish stranger. I can illustrate this fact hy a curious anecdote. In a manuscript in my possession, which contains the history of the flight of some Spanish Jews from the inqui- sition about two centuries ago, in making the first port they could they land...ed at Embden. Without friends, and with no knowledge of the country, the wanderers stood lost, not knowing whither to direct their steps. On entering the city they met a lad carrying a goose with a label annexed to it " in charac- ters well known, " observes the cautious me- morialist. By the Hebrew word hasher they instantly recognised the lad to be a Jew : a THE GENIUS OF JUDAISM. 157 discovery inspiring the emigrants with infi- nite joy. They followed the lad home, and, although their Spanish was not intelligible, the sealed meat served to guide the foreigners to their secret purpose, which was that of re- ceiving the most solemn rite of Judaism from the hand of an Israelite, which they had found impracticable in catholic Spain.
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