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n the Spaniard did get to the fallen man the Byzantine was already dead and the triumphant Egyptians were chanting, . It crumbles. The law of the sages prevents a man on Shabbat from carrying in his pocket a nail from a gallows. Inside the walls! he shouted, and placing himself in the roadway with his arms spread wide like the branches of a cross, he barred the way.

Stop! the little man cried. Bar-El spat contemptu- ously. hey would remember only that Jael was a heroic woman who had killed a man in order to save Israel. The posi- tion of the Jew in relation to this new religion would remain undetermined for some centuries,