JUST PASSING THROUGH
In the Nineteenth Century people who passed the Rothchild mansion in the fashionable section of London would notice that the end of one of the cornices was unfinished. Some wondered “Could not the richest man in the world afford to pay for that cornice, or was the lack due to carelessness?” The explanation was a very simple one, yet a very interesting one. Lord Rothschild was an orthodox Jew. According to the Jewish tradition, the house of every Jew is to have some part of it unfinished to bear testimony to the world that its occupant is only, like Abraham, a pilgrim and a stranger upon the earth, just passing through!
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