“Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.”

— Joseph H. Hertz

Genesis III, 21 (p. 12)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

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British rabbi 1872–1946

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