The Pomegranates of Yael II

Chapter 2 of an epistolary novel about the author of Genesis.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

—Emerson, Divinity School Address

24th of Elul, 2829

Jerusalem

Dear Princess:

I still have not heard back from you, I hope th…