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At times the rebbe experi- enced a mystical apprehension of the future, for in late 1874 he warned Shmuel, One day our Jews in Poland and Russia will again face the days of Czmielnicki. MemMern Bar-El, relying upon that judicious pre- cedent, had appealed to the rabbis for a declaration that the present siege was such a mortal moment and they had agreed. himself in the streets, put on their new clothes and made their appearances before the congregation, standing uneasily at attention as Rabbi Asher instructed them in the ways of God. d not until this stupendous preamble had passed did the actual fighting men appear, thousands of soldier

'You forget. Without speaking he left the house and went to the dye vats, where within a few minutes he arranged a contract for the marriage of his daughter Jael to Abraham, son of the dyer Hababli. But thirty homes! What would you prefer? the Spaniard asked, endeavoring to be conciliatory yet determined to be firm. Because most of the Arab soldiers are not fighting for a cause in which they believe.