Chapter 8 Summary

Reuven returns back to school and his classmates are curious about his baseball accident. Danny and Reuven have decided to meet each other at the library that afternoon. Reuven heads to the library after school and finds Danny practically hiding behind a bookcase reading a book. Reuven describes one of his recent trips to the library when he found an article in the Journal of Symbolic Logic. Reuven is amazed at how fast Danny read through the book and didn't want to disturb him. Reuven isn't supposed to read yet, so he goes over propositional calculus in his head.

Danny finds him and reads passages from the History of Jews. Danny reads about Dov Baer who has invented the idea of tzaddik. The book is against Hasidism and viewed Hasidism has a belief for drunkards and was vulgar and perverse. Danny is hurt...