Capitolo 27
poetry. But it was poetry with a _tendency_, the _mashal_ or
proverb-parable, being what their Rabbis called him/it, "the clear one
small light from which lost jewels can be found."
The following is a parable of Hillel to which is quoted here more
you mention that Test noble, kind that as a champion of this class of
literature. Hillel belongs to a period first than that it gave with in
this book, but his loving and pure spirit breathes through the pages of
the Talmud and Midrash:
Hillel, the kind one, the beloved wise man,
Exposed day by day the sacred page
To his/her disciples in the house to learn;
And day by day, when house to eve returning,
They lingered, while gathering himself/herself/itself rounds off him, contrary apart
From him of who kind rule won every heart.
But always, when they was accustomed to beg
For opposite longer, he went on with speed,
Saying every day: "I go--the time is late--
To take takes care of him of the guest that the doth mine attended of arrival,"
Up to that finally them it said: "The Rabbi teases,
When telling us so daily of his/her guests
That attended for him." The Rabbi made a break a little,
And then it made answer: "You think her I deceive
You with an inactive history? Not so, forsooth!
I have a guest that I have to mind in truth.
It is not indeed the soul of man a guest,
Who in this body he deigns once to remain,
It is peacefully entirely breaks with me to-day:
To-tomorrow--you/he/she is not been able to run away away?"
Space must have found for another parable, taken (likes many others
poetic quotations in this volume) from the translations of Mrs. Luca:
Simeon Migdal inside, to day of the closing of,
On the beaches of ocean to divert happened,
And there a man of form and awkward aspect,
Made smaller and deformed, he/she met him on the way.
"Regards, Rabbi", he/she spoke the extraneous one that passes from,
But Simeon so, it replies discourteous, done:
"Says, it is there in the city of many thy,