A balian has to be careful about what he or she eats and about sexual relations.

I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ.

You have in the merchant the shrewd calculator of probable contingencies; we shall see that we have in the prophet the absolute proclaimer of necessary and inevitable facts.

A husky boy who looks older than his years, he is acutely aware that his three older brothers, by the time they had reached his age, had already acquired a ten-gallon-hatful of prize money and a living-roomful of trophies in competitive racing.