, whilst E and A have the faulty reading

. The Seder Hadoroth has the same reading as E and A. Jehuda Halevi died about thirty years before Benjamin's visit, and the question of the burial-place of our great national poet is thus finally settled.

[ [97]

The common belief is that Simon the Just was buried near Jerusalem, on the road to Nablous, about a mile from the Damascus Gate.

[ [98]

Cf. Schechter's Saadyana, p. 89.

[ [99]

The passage referring to the Arnon is evidently out of place.