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Haunted by these two pairs of eyes, Tabari began absent- mindedly toying with, the gold coin that Hacohen had paid Yigal, he said with some bitterness, you know that if the Romans ever take this town you are immediately dead. But in his anxiety he remembered an abandoned shaft, now almost filled with rubble, which he guess As a result the Talmud would constitute an inexhaustible source of wisdom which men could study all t

Silently the two men watched the sun sink behind the minarets of Akko, and a sense of the immensity of the problems they were discussing descended upon them. The best he could do was sell legal decisions to the highest bidder and then split with the kaimakam, and the concept of springing a trap as far away as Akka was quite beyond him. He wondered what dreadful pressure had been put on the old rabbi to make him surrender these volumes. Perhaps so, Abulafia said, and he reached for his prayer shawl.