If Not Higher – Four Levels of Interacting | Flax Golden Tales
Lesson-4 If Not Higher (I.L Peretz, Poland 1852-1915) Questions Answer Apply the four levels of reading a text to “If Not Higher”. Ans: i. Literal Comprehension: Every early morning on Friday praying, Rabi used to disappear from the group. He wouldn’t be found either in the house or in the praying room. Some of the Jews calculated he had gone to heaven at that time but, other thought that he had done much human service. Among them, a Jew Litvak wanted to know the reality. He entered into Rabbi’s room and observed secretly what he was doing. Next day, he woke up early in the morning at the time of prayer and he disguised into the simple farmer’s dress and went into the forest. He cut a bundle of wood and entered into the hut of a poor Jew woman and forced her to buy wood even on credit convincing her that God was there to pay the money. He did all parts of prayer one after another making fire. Looking at all these activities, Litvak was influenced a lot and planned to...