Word: liebe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Passions," the same thing happens: Eunuch interrupts two very beautiful stories--one about Lieb Belkes who thinks so much about Israel that one day he leaves his village and walks there, and another about a simple tailor who becomes a great biblical scholar in only twelve months' time. And Eunuch tells of a rabbi so obsessed with Yom Kippur that he decides to celebrate it every day of the year. This is the strangest of all desires in Passions, most of which are earthy--the desire that is finally closest to being Bashevis Singer's one abiding passion...