ברוך • • • שלא עשני אשה•
[109-1] Cp. Choboth Ha-lebaboth, by Bachya ben Joseph Ibn Bakoda, and בחינת עולם by Yedaya Bedaresi, in which a similar metaphor is used.
[111-1] One of them was Moses ben Isaiah Wengrow, author of a book called ברית משה, in which the Massecheth Purim is declared to be a most dangerous book.
[111-2] Cp. Steinschneider, Schach bei den Juden, Berlin, 1873. See also I. Abrahams's Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, chap. XXII, p. 388.
[112-1] Cp. Graetz, Geschichte der Juden, VII, p. 306.