Book of Fables

Moses Wallich

1697

Chapter XXXIV

The donkey greets the horse with his greeting. He says: “How is it that you are limping? Walk slowly to be sure you don’t fall. You’ll never be able to canter. You’ve surely grown old. Oh, oh, how bad you look. I think you’re not well. You’re as skinny as a dog, nothing but skin and bones. You certainly don’t have much to be happy…

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Moses Wallich

d. 1739

Little is known about the life of Moses ben Eliezer Wallich. He hailed from a famous family deeply attached to the community of Worms. His Sefer meshalim (Book of Fables) is, with some variations, a reprint of Ku-bukh (The Book of Cows) printed in Verona in 1595. Distinguishing this print from that made a century before is a letter of approbation from R. Joseph Samuel ben Tsvi of Kraków, then serving as a rabbi in Frankfurt, that this text is to be under copyright. Furthermore, Wallich identifies the thirteenth-century Isaac ibn Sahula’s Meshal ha-kadmoni (The Ancient Parable) and Berakhiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan’s Mishle shu‘alim (Fox Fables) as the original sources for these fables in his title page. In the first preface, Wallich maintains that his book is also called Ku-bukh.

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