"Not very much of one, one doesn't often hear about him—the women talk of him, but who listens to them?"
"Then he just takes money and does nothing wonderful?"
They tell him the truth: that he takes little money, and gives away a great deal.
The rabbi muses.
"And he is a scholar?"
"They say, a great one!"
"Whence is he, this Nòach?"
Nobody knows, and I have to answer. A conversation ensues between me and the Brisk Rabbi:
"Was he not once in Brisk, this Nòach?" he asks.
"Was not the Rebbe once in Brisk?" I stammered. "I think—yes!"