So is that it? The rewards of faithfulness. If you’re a good Jewish boy and you marry a good Jewish girl, God will keep you safe. Is that the message of this book? How does that sound to Jews who have lived through the Holocaust?
Chapter 9 just advances the plot a little further, with Raphael is his guise as the trusty Azarias, despatched to collect the money and to bring Gabael back for Tobias’ wedding feast.
The echo that’s ringing today is that of Jacob’s sons sent to Egypt to buy grain in the famine. The father back home is anxious for his sons to return, and the detail about the camels reminded me very strongly of Joseph loading up his brothers’ camels with grain, and the money they had brought to pay for it, and planting his cup in Benjamin’s sack (Genesis 44:2).
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