"Floor of ... religions?" says Lev, bemused. "Where art thou from, that by thy corner, libraries are big enough to dedicate a floor to a single section, but not big enough to separate them? The civic library by the geniza, the main branch, they have half a floor just for our Law, and the other half's for the law by the Muslims, and the civic library down the road from my shul manages only four rows for us and for everyone else to boot, given they've only got three floors to work with, and the Geniza Library only ten minutes away by tram."
They're babbling. They've been a little on edge, a little manic lately. And Jean has them completely unbalanced. What kind of person can just recite the meaning of "Rabbi" but not know what kind of person it comes from—
"Nu. Wait! Thou said Judaism. Thou'rt Hellenistes, yes? All scholarship and neither tzedakah nor khesed."
Sorry, Jean. They're good at pastoral care, and they're a wonderful khazzan and shliakh, but for all of that, they're a queeny, catty fop too, and while they're never pettily cruel to most (not on purpose anyway), suspected monarchists are an exception.
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"Floor of ... religions?" says Lev, bemused. "Where art thou from, that by thy corner, libraries are big enough to dedicate a floor to a single section, but not big enough to separate them? The civic library by the geniza, the main branch, they have half a floor just for our Law, and the other half's for the law by the Muslims, and the civic library down the road from my shul manages only four rows for us and for everyone else to boot, given they've only got three floors to work with, and the Geniza Library only ten minutes away by tram."
They're babbling. They've been a little on edge, a little manic lately. And Jean has them completely unbalanced. What kind of person can just recite the meaning of "Rabbi" but not know what kind of person it comes from—
"Nu. Wait! Thou said Judaism. Thou'rt Hellenistes, yes? All scholarship and neither tzedakah nor khesed."
Sorry, Jean. They're good at pastoral care, and they're a wonderful khazzan and shliakh, but for all of that, they're a queeny, catty fop too, and while they're never pettily cruel to most (not on purpose anyway), suspected monarchists are an exception.