The Maharal whispered into its ear as before, its eyes closed, the breath left it, and it became once more a clay image. And to this day the image lies aloft in the Prague synagogue, covered up with cobwebs that stretch across from wall to wall, and spread over the whole arcade, so that the image shall not be seen, above all, not by the pregnant women of the "women's court." And the cobwebs may not be touched: whoever touches them, dies! No man, not the oldest there, recollects having seen the image; but the Chacham Zebî, the Maharal's grandson, sometimes wonders, whether, for instance, such an image might not be included in one of the ten males required to form a congregation? The image, you see, is not forgotten--the image is there still. But the name with which to give it life in the day of need has fallen as it were into a deep water! And the cobwebs increase and increase, and one may not touch them. What is to be done? GLOSSARY (ALL WORDS GIVEN BELOW, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ARE HEBREW.) CHANUKAH Feast of Dedication, or Feast of Lights, commemorating the victory of Judas Maccabeus. CHASSIDÎM _See_ Chossid. CHEDER Private religious school. CHOSSID (pl. Chassidîm). Briefly, a mystic. _See_ the article Hassidîm, in the Jewish Encyclopedia, V. DAYAN Assistant to the rabbi of a town. DREIER (Ger.). A small coin. ESROG (pl. Esrogîm). The "fruit of the tree Hadar," used with the Lulav on the Feast of Tabernacles. _See_ Lev. xxiii. 40. FELDSCHER (Ger.). Assistant army surgeon; the successor to the celebrated Röfeh of twenty or thirty years ago. GEHENNA The nether world; hell. GEMOREH The Rabbinical discussion and elaboration of the Mishnah. _See_ Talmud. GEVIR (pl. Gevirîm). Influential rich man. GROSCHEN (Ger.). A small coin. GULDEN (Ger.). A florin. GÜTER YÜD (Ger., "Good Jew"). Chassidic wonder-worker. _See_ Rebbe. HAVDOLEH Division; the ceremony ushering out the Sabbath or a holiday. HEKDESH Free hospital. KABBALAH A mystical religious philosophy, much studied by the Chassidîm. KADDISH Sanctification; a doxology. Specifically, the doxology recited by a child in memory of its parents during the first eleven months after their death, and thereafter on every anniversary of the day of their death. KEDUSHAH Sanctification; an important part of the public service in the synagogue. KISSUSH Sanctification; the ceremony ushering in the Sabbath or a holiday. KLÄUS (Ger.). House of study; lit., hermitage. KOHOL The community; transferred to the heads of the community. KOPEK (Russian). Small Russian coin, the hundredth part of a ruble. KOSHER Ritually permitted. LÀMED-WÒFNIK. One of the thirty-six hidden saints, whose merits are said to sustain the world. Làmed is thirty; wòf is six; and nik is a Slavic termination expressing "of the kind."