All 4 Uses of
Judaism
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A jews-harp's plenty good enough for a rat.†
Chpt 38 *Jews = people who believe in or identify with the culture of Judaism (the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions)
- Specially, painful music; and you can't get no other kind out of a jews-harp.†
Chpt 38
- You want to set on your bed nights before you go to sleep, and early in the mornings, and play your jews-harp; play 'The Last Link is Broken'—that's the thing that 'll scoop a rat quicker 'n anything else; and when you've played about two minutes you'll see all the rats, and the snakes, and spiders, and things begin to feel worried about you, and come.†
Chpt 38
- Jim said he would "jis' 's soon have tobacker in his coffee;" and found so much fault with it, and with the work and bother of raising the mullen, and jews-harping the rats, and petting and flattering up the snakes and spiders and things, on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him; and said he was just loadened down with more gaudier chances than a prisoner ever had in the world to make a name for himself, and yet he didn't know enough to appreciate them, and they was just about wasted on him.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
the oldest of the three major monotheistic religions -- having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
The Christian Old Testament closely corresponds to the Hebrew (Jewish) Bible.