But that was not spoken as if to rudely hush me, for one of the children showed me the low, dark passage that leads under the 18-foot-thick wall ( and which I forbore to explore ), and later I followed the father and the boy up onto the parapet that runs along the inside of the wall.
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And he forbore cursing one of them, pronouncing rather, " God's mercies extend over all His creatures . " ( Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 7a; Avodah Zarah 4b . ) His love of justice and his concern that the innocent might suffer on account of the guilty ( Babylonian Talmud Yoma 19b ) led him to speak against the custom then prevailing of removing from office a reader who, by omitting certain benedictions, had aroused the suspicion of heresy . ( Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot 9c .)
