the rabbi Joshua, a pleasant, learned man with whom I had frequently conversed in Athens, but who was trying to excuse himself to his people for his foreign culture and his relations with us, now ordered his disciples not to take up such profane studies unless they could find an hour which was neither day nor night, since Jewish law must be studied night and day.
Joshua rabinoak, gizon aratz eta ikasia eta nirekin Athenasen elkarrizketa franko egina izan arren, bere herriaren begien aurrean, ordea, zeukàn atzerritar kultura eta gurekin zituèn harreman onak barkakizun izan lekizkion etengabe erreguka ibiltzea atsegin bide zuenak, zera agindu zien bere dizipuluei, ez zitezela ikerketa profano haietan sar, alegia, non-eta ez egunari ez gauari ez dagokien orduren bat bilatzen ez zuten, juduen Legea, hitzez hitz, "gau ta egun" estudiatu beharrekoa omen dela-eta.