INDEX.
- Abarbanel, [124]
- Aben Ezra, [123]
- Abraham at the door of hell, [450]
- Adam, [136]
- Agadah, recognized in Jewish Prayer-book, [3]
- Ahijah, the Shilonite, fable about, [352]
- Almsgiving, Rabbinic, [302]
- merit of, [307]
- Amhaaretz, meaning of the word, [458]
- Amulets, virtues of, [183]
- Angels carry up the sound of the horn at new year, [267]
- Angels, of the waves, [197]
- Angel, evil, [229]
- Angels ministering, [164]
- Apostates, to be killed, [36]
- Arbah, Turim, [112]
- Astrology, taught and practised, [175]
- Atonement, day of, [279]
- Baptism necessary to a proselyte, [304]
- Bar Kochav, [222]
- Bechai, [142]
- Behemoth, legend of, [128], &c.
- Bither, the city of, [216]
- Cain, [138]
- Catechism, Bavarian Jewish, [25]
- gives a false view of Judaism, [26]
- Charity, Rabbinic, [112]
- Charm, Rabbinic, for a bleeding of the nose, [192]
- Charms allowed on the Sabbath-day, [200]
- Charm for bed time, [201]
- Christianity, a Jewish religion, [1]
- Christianity, the religion of the New Testament, [2]
- Christians considered as idolaters, [419]
- Circumcision equivalent to all the commandments, [451]
- meritoriousness of, [450]
- Cock, killing a cock as atonement, [283]
- Commandments, [442]; [162]
- Cruelty, Rabbinic, [8], [99], [209]
- to women, [377]
- Dead, Rabbinic mourning for, [428]
- prayers for the, [295]
- Death, an atonement, [299]
- Demons, asking counsel of, [203]
- Deniers of the law, three classes of, [4]
- Deputies, French Jewish, [24]
- Deuteronomy xvii. 8, &c., explained, [11]
- Dispensation, Rabbinic, from oaths, [434]
- Divorce, Rabbinic, doctrine of, [373]
- Drunkenness allowed on feast of Purim, [47]
- Edomites, Christians called, [123]
- Eleazar, Rabbi, [6]
- Elijah, the Prophet, conversation of, with R. Jose, [323]
- Epicureans, [4]
- to be killed, [36]
- Epicurean, reader in synagogue suspected of being, [127]
- Evasion, Rabbinic, [80], [83], [107], [225], [235]
- Excommunication for not washing hands, [75]
- Fast on the ninth of Av, [216]
- Fasting, merit of, [264]
- Fire, not to be extinguished, [102]
- Flogging of rebellion, [99], [211], [228], [383], [386], [420]
- Friday, Good, [87]
- Gentile, who studies the law, guilty of death, [22]
- who keeps a Sabbath-day, guilty of death, [22]
- good advice not to be given to, [33]
- woman not to be helped in child-bed, [33]
- not neighbour, [34]
- lost property not to be restored to, [35]
- Daniel punished for giving good advice to, [33]
- who wishes to turn Jew, [63]
- a Jew not publicly to receive alms from, [306]
- Sabbath not to be profaned to save a Gentile’s life, [212], [214]
- food regarded as carrion, [383]
- food not to be eaten, [383], [416]
- wine unlawful, [419]
- he that steals from, only to pay the principal, [34]
- wine, to drink, worse than fornication, [424]
- Gentiles, idolatrous, to be exterminated, [42]
- Gentile, drowning, not to be delivered, [30]
- Gentiles, duties towards, [24]
- not brethren, [26]
- not neighbours, [26]
- not to be greeted except from fear, [10], [26], [28]
- condemned for transgressing the command about tabernacles, [288]
- still have the defilement of the serpent, [156]
- cursing the, on the feast of Passover, [120], [121], [122]
- no pious, now, [67]
- marriage of, not binding, [58]
- and dogs, [107]
- Gershom, R., anathema by, [366]
- Hands, laying on of, [328]
- washing of, [71]
- Heathen, who are not in a state of salvation, [5]
- High Priest, an unlearned man, [7]
- Hilchoth Accum, [28], [33]
- Avadim, [21]
- Avel, [428]
- Berachoth, [71], [73]
- Deoth, [113]
- Genevah, [34]
- Gezelah, [34]
- Girushin, [375]
- Gittin, [374]
- Iom Tov, [116]
- Ishuth, [366]
- Issure Biah, [64]
- Kiddush Hachodesh, [100]
- Maakaloth Asuroth, [419]
- Mamrim, [335]
- Matt’noth Aniim, [304]
- Megillah, [48]
- Mikvaoth, [72]
- M’lachim, [22], [25]
- P’riah u’r’viah, [7]
- Rotzeach, [32], [33]
- Sanhedrin, [172], [342]
- Sh’vuoth, [436]
- Taanith, [216]
- Talmud Torah, [17], [148]
- T’phillah, [2], [128]
- T’shuvah, [4], [247]
- Hillel, the elder, [187]
- Holyday, how to make fire on, [106]
- Holydays, additional, prescribed by the rabbies, [98], [101]
- Jeremiah unjustly condemned, [13]
- Jewish-German, [283]
- Jews persecuted in Spain and Portugal, [42]
- Illegitimate, a learned man takes precedence of High Priest, [7]
- Intolerance, Talmudic, [28]-39
- Ioma, [19]
- Jonathan, son of Uzziel, [187]
- Jost’s history, [125]
- Isaac, merit of offering, [271]
- Jubilee, year of, [66]
- Judaism the religion of the oral law, [2]
- Judgment, Rabbinic, idea of the final, [287]
- Karo, R. Joseph, [17]
- K’hillath Shlomoh, [282]
- Kiddushin, [19]
- Kimchi, [93]
- Leaven, putting away of, [80]
- Legends, [127]-167
- Levi, family of, still known, [312]
- Leviathan, legend of, [128], &c.
- Levites, scriptural privileges of, [311]
- Liberty, religious, first taught by Jesus Christ, [46]
- Luck, good, [182]
- Magic allowed by Talmud, [168]-174
- Maimonides, [25], et passim
- intolerance, [26]
- Meat, lawful and unlawful, [397]
- Medrash Rabba, [153]
- Merit of ancestors, [285]
- Merit, doctrine of, [247], &c.
- Messiah, already come, [387]
- Miracles, Rabbinic, [203]
- Mishna, recognised in Jewish Prayer-book, [3]
- Mixture, Rabbinic, command of, [116]
- Muktzeh, [103]
- Napoleon, [24]
- New Year, Jewish, [247]
- New Year, judgment at, [247]
- Noachidæ, [25], [41]
- Oral law opposed to the Word of God in duty to parents, [9], [10]
- Oaths, Rabbinic dispensation from, [435], [450]
- Parable of Good Samaritan illustrated, [29]
- Parents, if in captivity, to be redeemed after the Rabbi, [9]
- duty to, according to oral law, [9]
- Passover, rites of, [79]
- Pentecost prayers, [145]
- Pesachim, treatise, [6]
- Pharisees, enemies of the Lord Jesus, [9]
- bad men, [8]
- Physician, Jewish, not to cure idolaters, [33]
- Pirke, Eleazer, [137]
- Planets, [175]
- Polygamy, allowed, [366]
- Poor, Rabbinic, oppression of the, [97]
- Power, Rabbinic, to excommunicate, [239]
- Prayer-book, Jewish, acknowledges and teaches the authority of the Talmud, [2], [3]
- Jewish, full of legends, [127]-167
- Priests, scriptural office of, [310]
- Proselytes, sojourning, [26]
- Purgatory, Rabbinic, [296]
- Purim, feast of, [47]
- Rabbi, duty to, goes before duty to parents, [9], [10]
- Rabbies not agreed, [399], [400]
- Rabbinic charity, [112]
- Ramban, [142]
- Rome called Edom, [123]
- Rosh Hashanah, [298]
- Saadiah Gaon, [162]
- Sabbath, unlawful for a Gentile to keep a, [22]
- Sabbath-day, amulets on, [184]
- Sabbath, laws concerning, [285]-290
- Salvation, who are excluded from, by the oral law, [4]
- Sambation, [139]
- Sanhedrin, not infallible, [8]
- great council of, [168]
- members of, magicians, [168]
- understood seventy languages, [168]
- all handsome men, [171]
- pillar of the oral law, [335]
- a later, may reverse the decision of a former, [335]
- not a Divine institution, [337]
- of Greek origin, [341]
- greater and lesser, [343]
- business of, [345]
- death to those who rebelled against, [344]
- contrary to Scripture, [345]
- Parisian, [366]
- Satan deceived by the blowing of the horn in the month of Elul, [266]
- Scapegoat, [280]
- Schoolmasters, Rabbinic, [315]
- Scripture, women not bound to study, [18]
- Sepher Jetzirah, [181]
- Schulchan Aruch, [7]
- Sinai, [163]
- Slaughtering, laws concerning, [380]
- laws of, [396]
- Slaves exempt from the duty of studying the law of God, [17]
- Souls of all Israel at Sinai, [152]
- Sotah, [76]
- Stars, influence of, [175]
- Study of the law equivalent to all the commandments, [51]
- Tabernacles, feast of, [287]
- Talmud, recognised in Jewish Prayer-book, [3]
- Tradition, Rabbinic argument for overthrow, [11]
- no unbroken train of, [350]
- Treatise, Avodah Zarah, [291]
- Turnus Rufus, [140], [216]
- Unlearned man, lawful to kill, [6]
- Van Oven, Joshua, Esq., Manual of Judaism, [465]
- Venus planet, [177]
- Washing of hands, [71]
- Wine, Gentile, unlawful, [419]
- Woman, insane, to be turned out, [377]
- Women, exempt from the duty to study the law, [17]
- do not receive the same reward as a man, [18]
- not to be taught the law, [18]
- minds of, not equal to the study of the law, [18]
- command of Moses, respecting, [21]
- duties of, prescribed in New Testament, [22]
- Rabbinic degradation of, [359]
- cannot give testimony, [360]
- not regarded as part of the congregation, [361]
- World to come, who are excluded from, [4]
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Footnotes
[1]. Published originally January 15, 1836.
[2]. Joreh Deah, sec. 246.
[3]. Literally, תיפלות. In the translation of this word we follow the interpretation of the Joreh Deah, which renders it דבר עבירה. This is obviously not the place to discuss the other opinions of the Rabbies.
[4]. See Kiddushin, fol. 29, col. 2.
[5]. Joma., fol. 66, col. 2.
[6]. Fol. 59, col. 1.
[7]. Transactions of Parisian Sanhedrin, p. 178.
[8]. Lehrbuch der Mosaischen Religion. München, 1826, page 150.
[9]. We quote the passage as we find it. Noachides is here taken for the seven commandments of the children of Noah, contrary to the usual acceptation of the word.
[10]. Hilchoth Accum, c. x. 1.
[11]. Hilchoth Rotzeach, c. xii. 15. See also Bava Bathra, fol. iv. col. 1., about the middle of the page, where the punishment of Daniel is more fully discussed.
[12]. Jost. volume vii. p. 91.
[13]. Hilchoth Rotzeach, c. iv. 10.
[14]. Dr. Jost’s Geschichte der Israeliten, vol. vii. p. 93.
[15]. Instead of לנד alone, there is another reading, לנד׳׳, the tribunal.
[16]. Jewish Prayer-book, p. 152.
[17]. The British Jews of Burton-street Synagogue have expunged from their prayers the intolerance here complained of.
[18]. See Jost’s Geschichte, vol. i. 70 and 153.
[19]. This alludes to בהמות. See Job xl. 15, &c. D. Levi.
[20]. According to Rashi.
[21]. According to Rashi, one who goes from house to house to get alms.
[22]. Rashi says a man who is liberal in almsgiving.
[23]. The only explanation which Rashi gives of these words is לחש הוא “It is a charm.”
[24]. Literally, לחש הוא “It is a charm.”—Rashi.
[25]. The Bareitha.
[26]. Such as a key, a ring, or a knife.—Rashi.
[27]. Hilchoth Shabbath and Hilchoth Eruvin extend from fol. 140 to fol. 226.
[28]. That is, if the Sabbath commence before he can get to a resting place.
[29]. דחמור אתה מצווה על שביתתו ולא דנכרי ׃
For thou art commanded respecting the resting of the ass, but not respecting that of the Gentile.
[30]. Isaac.
[31]. “Alluding to Isaac’s being bound; and thus considered as if he had been offered, and his body burnt to ashes on the altar.” (Levi’s note.)
[32]. See the Machsor for the Day of Atonement, in אז מלפני בראשית and for the Passover, in ברה דודי.
[33]. היים לעשותם בעולם הזה , ולא למהר דאינו יכול לעשותם לעולם הבא ׃
[34]. Literally, “a stranger.”
[35]. Compare Deut. xiii. 13, and Hilchoth Accum, c. iv.
[36]. This number was originally published December 23, 1836.
[37]. “A Manual of Judaism,” by Joshua Van Oven, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., London, 1835. Page 22.
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- Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference.