and lunch and dinner at that same horrible café. I’m afraid that if my dream is realized, I’ll have no reason to go on living.
“You dream about your sheep and the Pyramids, but you’re different from me, because you want to realize your dreams.
I just want to dream about Mecca. I’ve already imagined a thousand times crossing the desert, arriving at the Plaza of the Sacred Stone,
the seven times I walk around it before allowing myself to touch it.
I’ve already imagined the people who would be at my side, and those in front of me, and the conversations and prayers we would share.
But I’m afraid that it would all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream about it.”
That day, the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display. Not everyone can see his dreams come true in the same way.
TWO MORE MONTHS PASSED, AND THE SHELF BROUGHT many customers into the crystal shop.
The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, he could return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty.
In less than a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to do business with the Arabs,
because he was now able to speak their strange language.
Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again made use of Urim and Thummim,
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