S. Y. Agnon’s “Fable of the Goat”

It makes it very simple for Agnon to make these well-known characters, and it absolutely does not teach. For all the Bible and rabbinic themes that many people can not track, the story begins with a sick man whose doctor drives a goat milk. However, he bought a goat regularly for several days, brought back the chest containing milk and came back. The man's son tied the rope to the tail of the goat and decided to obey her. Then the goat led his son into a cave, an underground tunnel leading to the most amazing Israeli land. (According to the rabbinic tradition, when the Messiah arrives, the dead Jews will travel from their tombs to Israel through underground caves.) When he notices this, the excited son His father Sabbath is coming, he can not travel. He soon wrote a note to his father, chased the goat, stuck a note to the ear of the goat, and sent her back to the tunnel. But when the goat arrived, my father treated his son as a dead man; he slaughtered a goat and found the note. While his son was prospering in the land of life, his father lamented how he was supposed to be exiled.

Dana Horn wrote this article, S. Y. Given the new English translation and its difficulties, Agnon's "Goat Fables"

The reason why my father did not return is not so important, but at least in this article, a simple fable of Annon taught me to go to Israel. Later when I read Agnon's novel Sippur Pashut I read it in English as a simple story in English but I noticed how good Agnon is in a simple story and then there is no ultimate simple story Teach you things. The unfortunate hero of Annon was harassed by crazy Orthodox Jews who were deceived by vulgar and atheistic Jews and left in the weather and the cruelty of his own romantic land. Who do you think is like Zionism that needs postionism? Or at least I should say that even after you went to this land Agnon let me know that you still travel there and are still on a journey that will not stop.

Introduction S. Y. Agnon (1888 - 1970) is considered to be the largest Hebrew author in the 20th century. His rich writing career lasts for 60 years and his work is different. In the early days of Zionism and founding, when other writers dealt with the Palestinian Jewish collective and political problems, Annon has focused on the social and spiritual life of the past lost heritage . When other writers drew truly a new secular society, Annon was immersed in the classical Jewish culture and the Jewish inner life world. His story represents the spiritual struggle of alienated, enlightened Jews who are far from the background of distant peace and religion. The events of Annon's own life took a distinct place in his story; he also elicited extensive experience from the traditions of the Bible, the Talmud, the medieval literature, and the Chasidic literature.