[44] According to the Talmudical legend.
[45] Little Jew.
[46] Adapted from the twelfth principle of the Jewish faith, relating to the Messiah.
[47] Sabbath dish prepared the day before, and kept in a heated oven overnight.
[48] Bontzye "mum."
[49] Men of great learning in the Law.
[50] By which the law is made applicable to an elderly woman.
[51] Grandsons. A celebrated Rebbe would have "sons" and "grandsons" among his adherents. The former would remain, the latter would come and go in companies and more or less respectable conveyances.
[52] Owing to the emigration of the younger men to America in the "bad times."
[53] "Chapter of Song," a Midrash, found in some editions of the prayer-book.