“Properly, my good folks,” he calls out, “how do you want our ladies, who’re dressed like dolls in honor of Pesach? Consider me, in the event that they must fear about matzos or grating horse radish or chopping nuts for charoses or boiling eggs for the salt water, they’d haven’t any time to decorate up like queens. Let me inform you, my mates, ladies will stay ladies. It doesn’t matter how outdated they’re; they nonetheless wish to discover grace within the eyes of males.”
Outdated Mrs. Lapin, an outdated settler, takes exception to Reb Moise Laiser’s comment.
“Is there any unsuitable in ladies liking good garments? Is it against the law to search out grace within the eyes of males? Sure, Reb Moise, however not in your eyes.”
Her final phrases are spoken with bitter sarcasm, and the others chuckle.
“And why not in my eyes?” he solutions. “Within the first place, I’m solely eighty years outdated, and after I take a Russian tub I can nonetheless endure the warmth for half an hour, which many youthful males can’t stand. Secondly, I acquired my new glasses yesterday and can be capable of see the true dimension of the kneidlach ”
“Ha, ha!” laughs Mrs. Lapin—“Are there kneidlach large enough for you, Reb Moise Laiser? How effectively all of us bear in mind the way in which you overate your self final Pesach!”
Adjoining to the outdated folks’s house there’s a small park the place Utiansky sits on a bench reminiscing about his previous life. His childhood days are extra vivid than ever, due to the vacation spirit prevailing.
The panorama of those years strikes earlier than his eyes and brings him to the day when he got here to this nation forty-five years in the past.
In his early immigrant days he was confronted with all of the hardships and difficulties the newcomer meets. With the assistance and cooperation of a loyal spouse he established himself pretty effectively. They raised a household with whom they spent many a pleasing seder night time. It was their hope to spend a peaceable and safe outdated age.
Then got here the disaster days when the underside fell out of the whole lot. His spouse died. Together with her passing the household was damaged up. Two of their sons seemed for alternatives in different cities and their solely daughter remained a widow, and needed to work to help two babies.
He affords prayers to God upon his mendacity down and his rising up, for the nice neighborhood which gives this haven for him.
And but his coronary heart is heavy….
Travelling 