Noted when reading Rebbetzin

I like Jewish literature, link to Horse Walks, The Netanyahus, Bellow, Malamud

Splendid book, style, humor everything

Such hutzpah battle of wives really this is why the title especially

He did not preach down on them but talked of the land of israel so connection to now and other writers up there

The masses are asses says rebbetzin, she is fierce

Rabbi Moshe Mordecai Eisenstadt used to be the fiancé, now some called him the Jewish Pope

Clash between the Mizrahi and Agudah, the latter accuse the Graipewo Rev, Reb Uri Zvi then a visit to the Horedna Rav aka the Jewish Pope and rebbetzin wants her spouse to be a judge on the Court and there is acrimony

Sarah Rivkah is the rebbetzin, wife of Horadna Rav and tries to interfer for peace

After the clash, the raabi is supposed to say that the Torah reveals or talks about the settling of Israel, and he thinks he caanot say such a thing, only to hear Serele that he can and he will, israel is on every page of the Torah, so now she is also a maggid herself?

 

Then scandal. Heckles

 

The Graipewo Rev and his wife had reached their later years. Their children were all married and lived in Horadna.

The Rav, Rabbi Uri Zvi HaCohen Koenigsberg, was a huge, fleshy man, tall and wide

Though widely repespected as a scholar and preacher, he remained in Grapewo

 

Very kind listens to all, gives advice, does not want to go to bigger town, happppy with his life link to Daniel Gilbert

 

Wife the opposite of him, Rebbetzin Perele

Tzaddik saint

 

Link to Pretentious, moi

Invited to be rabbi in Horadna at some synagogue, big one

 

Rebbetzin wants to move she had been the fiancé of this man who is now the most respected in the Jewish world. A day or so before the wedding he gave up, he didn’t like the character of Perele

 

Children in Horadna, married boys there because she is still obsessed with her former fiancé

 

Now she wants them to move and rabbi talks about money, president of community says they thought he needs less, not more…ha

Eventually, they say rebbetzin could sell yeast, monopoly, but she feels offended, as if rabi asked her to take shoes and wig off and get into the snow to dance, maybe

Then he quarrels with the community, who feel he is not for them, if he just lost uinterst over a few zloty

 

They move to Horadna, where rabbi is invited to give the sermon and then the former fiancé comes to listen, great honor, he is weak, his daughter had died

Serel is protective of her father, gives birth to theird child

 

Chaim Grade was born in Vilnius, now Vilnius, in the shining "Jerusalem of the North", and it is from there and the narrowness of the Jewish villages, the shtetlech between the world wars, that he tells us – without any sentimental glorification. His sensual and atmospheric depictions of the lost Jewish world unfold great personal and political dramas.

 

The cultured Perele, daughter of the learned rabbi of Staripol, is one of the most impressive of the many female figures in Grade Erzä, a refined Xanthippe. As the heiress of rabbinical nobility, she wants to promote her good-natured husband, Uri-Zvi Königsberg, from a simple preacher to a respected rabbi – with intrigue, cold calculation and silent relentlessness. Behind her ambition lies a tormenting secret of life.

 

Whether here, in the story The Rebbezin, or in Lejbe-Lejser's The bitter dispute over religious commandments in synagogues, homes or shops, the "religious war" between traditionalists and innovators, orthodox zealots and Zionist freethinkers determines the existence of all and is the great theme of Chaim Grad's narrative art. His poetic feeling for the dreams and longings of women in a world full of commandments and prohibitions creates a vivid picture of Jewish everyday life.

 

The Graipewo RAV1 and his wife had reached their later years. Their children were all married and lived in Horadna. The Rav, Rabbi Uri-Zvi Ha-Kohen Koenigsberg, was a huge, fleshy man, tall and wide, with wavy side-locks flowing into a snow-white beard and large, innocent light-blue eyes. Though widely respected as a scholar and preacher, Rabbi Koenigsberg had never sought a more prestigious pulpit. He remained in Graipewo, never arguing with his congregants or ruling them with an iron hand—and never flattering the wealthier of them either. It was his wish to avoid contention at all cost.

 

When litigants came before him for a ruling,