Even a most innocent frolic among the boys was
suppressed as an offense to good Judaism
All of which tended to deepen the mystery of girlhood and to
increase the chances of Satan.
I must explain that although women could not attend divine
service except through a peephole, they were free to visit the
house of worship on all sorts of other errands. So some of them
would come with food for the scholars, others with candles for the
chandeliers, while still others wanted letters read or written. One
of the several rabbis of the town was in the habit of spending his
evenings reading Talmud in the Preacher's Synagogue, so
housewives of the neighborhood, or their daughters, would bring
some spoon, pot, or chicken to have them passed upon according
to the dietary laws of Moses and the Talmud
I would scrutinize the faces and figures of these girls, I would draw
comparisons, make guesses as to whether they were engaged to be
married (I did not have to speculate upon whether they were
already married, because a young matron who would visit our
synagogue was sure to have her hair covered with a wig).
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