To-day we have ended the Torah once more;
To-day we begin it again, as of yore.
Be thankful and glad and the Lord extol,
Who gave us the Law on its parchment scroll.
J. L. GORDON.
(Trans. Alice Lucas and Helena Frank.)
THE MACCABEAN WARRIORS
They were ready either to live or die nobly.
1 MACCABEES 4. 35.