JEW’S LONG PENANCE.
SILENT FOB. 30 YEARS. MAW WiHO CURSED WIFE. Loudon, January 27. The Vienna Correspondent of the Observer says that a business man of that city named Samuel Frommer has died at Czortkow after 30 years of complete silence. This silence was a penance imposed on him by a Jewish Rabbi, because the man cursed his wife in 1898. Frommer said, in a quarrel with his wife, that he wished she would be burned to death. The man was grief-stricken when, shortly afterwards, his house was burned down aiid his wife and two children perished in the flames. Horrified at the apparent Divine Judgment on him, Frommer applied to the Rabbi to prescribe atoninjg punishment. He was sentenced “to close the mouth which had uttered the curse.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3752, 9 February 1928, Page 4
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129JEW’S LONG PENANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3752, 9 February 1928, Page 4
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