Ch. 5
The name of the street Reuven's house is on.
What is Lee Avenue?
The century during which a vibrant Jewish community formed in Poland.
What is the 13th century?
The name for a Hasidic house of worship.
What is shtibblach?
The place where Reuven meets with Danny.
What is the library?
Reuven's relationship with Danny.
What is Friendship?
The name of the Russian housekeeper.
Who is Manya?
The religion the Cossacks belonged to.
What is the Greek Orthodox Church?
When Jewish people attend synagogue.
What is Shabbat?
What Reb Saunders and Reuven discussed while Danny went to prepare some tea.
What is Danny?
What is Jewish History/Tradition?
A Jewish physicist whose picture is on Reuven's wall.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The year Bogdan Chmielnicki became leader of the Cossacks.
What is 1648?
The name of the softball player on Reuven's team who attends the same synagogue as him.
Who is Davey Cantor?
The text of Talmud Reb Saunders, Danny, and Reuven used to start a debate during Shabbat.
What is the Pirkei Avot?
What Mr. Malter basically believes as shown in Reuven and Danny's friendship.
What is being chosen/destiny
The color of the carpet in the brownstone hallway.
What is grey?
The original name of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
What is Israel?
The ethnicity of the band of marauders who left Reb Saunders for dead in Russia.
What are the Cossacks?
The blind Greek author of two epic poems that Reuven notices on the library mural.
Who is Homer?
The theme shown through Danny's reverence for Reb Saunders.
What is the Father and Son relationship?
The name of the composer whose symphony Reuven had wanted to listen to the night of the ball game.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
"Empty, nonsensical arguments over minute points of Talmud that have no relation at all to the world."
What is pilpul?
The name for a form of Hebrew numerology.
What is gematriya?
The author of the quote above the library.
Who is John Keats?
What is Reuven Danny's intellectual equal in, as shown in Chapter 8?
What is Jewish Tradition/Talmud?