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fcself, and now only used on the Day of Atonement and ither great occasions. It is quite in the midst of the Jew's [narter, which is entirely given np to them, and inside.it 3 black with age, its gothic pillars looming out of a coat-ng of soot and smoke, never allowed to be cleared away. Che centre was spread with draperies of cloth of gold and ilver. On the platform within them was the chief Rabbi, , venerable man with a white beard which swept over ds brown robe as far as his waist. ' He is wonderfully earned,' whispered my neighbour to me. ' He understands very language in the whole world, and as for English he peaks it as well as an Englishman.' At last there was a aistle in the crowd, and a young woman made her way hrough, enveloped in a very curious ancient hood of worked gold, and several very smart ladies crowded up iter her: we followed. Then the priest shouted in lebrew so that the little building rang again, and the labbi took a little silver cup of oil and — I think — jiointed the lady, and a service followed in which all the >eople responded electrically as if a bell were struck; but t was not till we came out that I found the lady in the golden hood had been — married.
" We went afterwards to the Jewish burial-ground — a vide rambling expanse in the heart of the town, literally rammed with tombstones, falling one over the other, and, >etween them, old gnarled elder-trees growing fantastically. Che cemetery has been twice* emptied! — and filled again. )n one of the graves a young Jewess was lying, evidently rery ill. ' You see,' said the old woman who let us into he cemetery, c that the Rabbi who is buried there was so rood when he was alive, that when all the other people vere rooted up, they left him and his wife alone ; and his rood works live on so much, that sick persons are often >rought here to lie upon his grave, in the hope of their >eing cured.'
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