Be genuinely
truthful, then. And if you feel that you are good, don't be too proud
of it.
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."
He worked me up to a veritable frenzy of penitence
"I will, I will," I said, tremulously. "And if I ever catch myself
looking at a woman again I will gouge out my eyes like Rabbi
Mathia."
"'S-sh! Don't say that, my son." About a quarter of an hour later, as
I sat reading by myself, I suddenly sprang to my feet and walked
over to Reb Sender
"You are so dear to me," I gasped out. "You are a man of perfect
righteousness. I love you so. I should jump into fire or into water
for your sake."
"'S-sh!" he said, taking me gently by the hand and pressing me
down into a seat by his side. "You are a good boy. As to my being
a man of perfect righteousness, alas! I am far from being one. We
are all sinful. Come, let us read another page together."
Satan kept me rather busy these days. It was not an easy task to
keep one's eyes off the girls who came to the Preacher's
Synagogue, and when none was around I would be apt to think of
one.
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