[151]. Genesis 18. 19.
[152]. Ibid.
[153]. Sefer Sha’ashu’im, Davidson’s edition, pp. 49, seq.
[154]. There is a pun in the original: Anak is a necklace as well as a name of a tribe of giants.
[155]. It is an Oriental custom to take off the shoes.
[156]. Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, vol. I., chapter 31.
[157]. The nineteenth Makamah, or chapter of the Tahkemoni.
[158]. This name of the biblical sage (comp. 1 Kings 5. 11) has been adopted for the name of the “narrator” (Al-Harizi himself?) who records the exploits and wonderful utterances of the “hero,” Heber the Kenite.
[159]. Proverbs 31. 29.
[160]. Sefer Hasidim, Judah Wistinetzki’s edition, §§ 19024–19030.