[121]. Egers, p. 147. It consists of twenty lines without rhymes. The double acrostic reads אברהם מעזרה.
[122]. Egers, p. 139; Rosin, I, p. 168. This is the first part of this composition which is in rhymed prose. The author meets Hai b. Mekiz (the Living, Son of the Wakeful), who urges him to leave his companions and to seek wisdom.
[123]. That is, the multitude, crowd.
[124]. That is, Imagination.
[125]. That is, Emotions, Passions, and Moods.
[126]. That is, Lust and Appetite.
[127]. Neubauer, Mediæval Jewish Chronicles, vol. I., pp. 67, seq.
[128]. Psalm 68. 23.
[129]. Asher, The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, pp. 34, seq.; M. Adler’s edition, pp. כ״ג, seq.
[130]. That is, Christ.