ting from the Psalms of David: 'Our fathen trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They watched with strange emo tions: their brothers had reached the town, but they were destro mg it in the manner that was to be forbidden in the future. Then, surprisingly, the Spaniard's austere face broke into a warm, enveloping smile; the lines in his cheeks deepened and his somber eyes glowed with a promise of friendship. That's reasonable, the old man said.
By a matter of religion. These warnings were observed by all Jews in Safed, for the Torah was constantly in the heart of the great rabbis like Zaki and Abulafia. These were Jews whose families had lived here for four thousand years, and the subservii- ent habits of exile they had not acquired. tten on the tablets of stone and later transcribed word for word into the Torah, and a second of equal import
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