Things as they are

things exactly as they occurred. Things describing precisely what was done.

(“‘And what you said—that you have in your hand a writing, that the community wished to enact a regulation in this matter, and that I destroyed it in their hands—I will tell you the matters as they are. Behold, so-and-so immediately placed his intention to be leader and officer over the community’” (Responsa of the Riba”sh, siman 61), and likewise: “If she herself was of Davidic descent, why did the lineage not come to her and come to the father who was not the boy’s father? Did I not recount the matters as they are? Therefore, Joseph relates to the family and not to Miriam, and the wise will understand” (Sefer Mashmia Yeshuah Mevaser Tov, third volume, Prophecy 15), and likewise: “I speak words as they are, simple as their meaning: good fortune for us—our document was validated by lot!” (Sholem Aleichem, Seventy-Five Thousand, 18), and likewise: “Perhaps he will be chosen by a short, simple, and clear path: he will reveal to the father the matters as they are” (Y. Burla, Longings, p. 69), and likewise: “His heart inclines toward the matters as they are, for there is no truth like the truth of deeds” (Agnon, Only Yesterday, p. 82), and likewise: “Now is the time to see a dream in the stack of straw, and the time to see a matter as it is. You came to the city—walked with proper manners!” (H. Hazaz, The First Generations, p. 75).)

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