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 THE CLEVER RABBI 587

as hard as you please. I will perform it willingly, and may God forgive me likewise !"

The Rabbi comforted him, and told no one what had happened, he only told a few very near relations, just to show them how people can be talked into believing the greatest foolishness and the most wicked lies.

May God said my Grandmother open the eyes of all who accuse us falsely, that they may see how use- less it is to trump up against us things that never were seen or heard.

Jews will be Jews while the world lasts, and they will become, through suffering, better Jews with more Jewish hearts.