YASHPEH
International Folktales Collection
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Prayer |
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The Golden Mountain |
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Tradition: Jewish, Eastern European Hassidic Jews |
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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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