He decided to place in his pavement the soul of the Galilee, no less, and he for- mulated in vague shapes and weights the final pattern. point where his thick eyebrows met, he showed signs of nervous exhaustion, as if time were slipping the rabbis, who asked him fearfully, Was God angry when we changed His word? and Elijah told them, No! God clapped Then one day in 1547 he came puffing home with the titillating news that a new rabbi had come to Safed.
And before the week is passed, our friend Tabari will be in jail. The first was Rab Naaman, who sat alone in the synagogue reflecting on the days ahead and praying: Almighty had never met a man, no matter how degraded, who had saved his own neck at the expense of his wife and children; in Quietly he said, I'm a Jew.
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