The Blasphemer

The Blasphemerprofaning all that was holy had long been a way of life for him, so what did he have to lose in taking up with a Warsaw whore?Faithlessness can also lead to insanity. In Malopol, our village, this is what happened to Chazkele. I knew him well; I even went to heder with him one winter. His father, Bendit, was a coachman. He lived on the hill among the poor. He had a dilapidated hut, a broken-down stable and a nag called Shyva, who was as emaciated as a skeleton and terribly old. Thi...