Among these was the Pole.
This time my rival begged my forgiveness. I granted it, of course,
but I felt that we never could like each other
There was a great wave of sympathy for me. Offers of assistance
came pouring in in all sorts of forms. Had there been a Yiddish
newspaper in town and such things as public meetings, the
outburst might have crystallized into what, to me, would have
been a great fortune. As it was, public interest in me died before
anything tangible was done. Still, there were several prosperous
families of the old-fashioned class, each of which wanted to
provide me with excellent board. But then Reb Sender's wife, in a
fit of compassion and carried away by the prevailing spirit of the
moment, claimed the sole right to feed me
"I'll take his mother's place," she said. "Whatever the Upper One
gives us will be enough for him, too." Her husband was happy,
while I lacked the courage to overrule them
As to lodgings, it was deemed most natural that I should sleep in
some house of worship, as thousands of Talmud students did in
Antomir and other towns.
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