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Education and the bet hamidrash

that. When older, I walked with my father through those woods from
the city at midnight or three in the morning, but my mother always
worried. So he would remain in the city all week, come home for
Sabbath, and leave again Sunday morning. All I could boast of was
that I had finished a whole volume in so many weeks. My mother
was very proud of my great feats, and my father already considered
me as a man. Of the sciences I knew nothing but a little addition,
subtraction, and multiplication, just enough to run a little grocery or
cigarette shop when I should be blessed with a wife and children.
Two years I led this independent life, until my cousin David
Binshtock and I decided to go to another city for more knowledge.

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