Crossword-Solution: PESACH 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Pesach Harretzki was one of those perverse lads that one meets occasionally in a Hebrew community, who, feeling the wild impulse of youth in every vein, throws over the holy traditions of his forefathers and follows rather the promptings of his own heart than that happiness which can only be found in a firm adherence to the law and its precepts.

There was but one attraction in Judaism which still fascinated Pesach, and that was his charming cousin Miriam.

Pesach became despondent and put the finishing touch to his ungodly career by becoming intoxicated with beer on the Passover.

Pesach, the _meshumed_, continued these contributions to the synagogue and to his parents, and the Jews of Kief, having forgotten his former escapades, referred to him thenceforth as "Pesach the Generous." He had now returned after an absence of twelve years, and the whole settlement was in a state of pardonable excitement.

Then came Hirsch Bensef and his charming wife, the latter trembling and blushing in recollection of the days when she and her cousin Pesach loved each other in secret.