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...young inspectors. "Open those boxes," they cried. "No," answered the Grand Rabbi. "I won't. Not those." The young men therefore opened the boxes themselves and discovered in them the laws of Moses but not a single diamond. They were the Grand Rabbi's precious tvillim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Having thus rudely probed his tvillim, the young men apologized to Grand Rabbi Leib Twersky publicly whereat he observed, "This is a strange country but I like "it." There were no further smuggling arrests last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...forehead, by Orthodox Jews in obedience to Deuteronomy, XI, 18: "Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." Among other scriptural writings contained in the tvillim are these: "This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt" (Exodus, XIII, 6), and "What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments as righteous as all this law?" (Deuteronomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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