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new publication called
Kadima,
led a long and merciless battle
against him, "using gossip and slander in a manner that showed him
to be not entirely without talent." One unfinished parable found
among Ben Haas's papers, entitled "The Story of the Master and the
Disciple," contains no moral, being incomplete . Except perhaps the
following : it is difficult to establish a clear-cut difference, in the
moral sense, between Substance and the Appearance of Substance.
"Not even the man called the Master always succeeded in doing so,"
says Frankel. "Leaning over the abyss, not even he could resist the
vain pleasure of trying to fUI it with Sense." Whence we may derive a
new moral, which suggests, as might a proverb, that it is dangerous
to lean over someone else's void even if only to gaze, as in the depths
of a well, at one's own reflection, for that, too, is vanity. Vanity of
vanities.
