Part 20

38 – From _History of the People of Israel_ (London: Chapman & Hall).

39 – See p. 290.

40 – Cf. pp. 57‒63.

41 – From _Passages of the Bible Chosen for their Literary Beauty_ (London: A. & C. Black).

42 – The Works of T. H. Huxley (London: Macmillan & Co.).

43 – Cf. p. 66.

44 – Cf. pp. 67 and 68.

45 – The Book of Jonah, together with Isaiah 58, is the prophetical Lesson for the Day of Atonement.

46 – From _History of the Jewish Church_ (London: John Murray).

47 – Cf. p. 69.

48 – See p. 290 for the exact wording of Hillel’s saying.

49 – Cf. p. 72.

50 – See p. 268.

51 – Authorized Prayer Book, p. 317.

52 – From _Daniel Deronda_ (London: William Blackwood & Sons).

53 – From _Israel Among the Nations_ (London: Heinemann).

54 – From _Historical Miniatures_ (London: George Allen & Unwin).

55 – A book in the Apocrypha.

56 – From _History of Rationalism in Europe_ (London: Longmans, Green & Co.).

57 – From _A Short History of the English People_ (London: Macmillan & Co.).

58 – See foot-note, p. 95. In consequence of the American Revolution, the congregation became extinct. No Jew lived in Newport when this poem was written.

59 – Cp. pp. 97‒108.

60 – From _Democracy and Liberty_ (London: Longmans, Green & Co.).

61 – Cp. p. 125.

62 – From _The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg_ (London: Chatto & Windus).

63 – Authorized Prayer Book, p. 3.

64 – From _Songs of a Jew_ (London: Geo. Routledge & Sons).

65 – _Scroll of the Law._

66 – Plural of _Mitzvah_, a ritual precept or ceremonial law. _Mitzvah_ also means ‘a good deed’.

67 – See p. 290.

68 – Johanan ben Zakkai, pupil of Hillel and leader of Israel after the Destruction of Jerusalem (70 C.E.). He rescued Judaism by founding the Academy at Jabneh.

69 – From _Service of the Synagogue_ (George Routledge & Sons).

70 – Term for ‘rabbi’ among the Chassidim or Pietists of Eastern Europe.

71 – Penitential Prayers before New Year and Atonement Day.

72 – Temporary group of worshippers; also term for the quorum of ten males required for public worship; see p. 6, last line.

73 – From _Service of the Synagogue_ (Geo. Routledge & Sons).

74 – Reading Desk, usually in the centre of the Synagogue.

75 – From _Service of the Synagogue_ (George Routledge & Sons).

76 – ‘Your health!’

77 – See 2 Maccabees for the story of the martyr mother and her seven sons.

78 – Cf. p. 156.

79 – In _The Jewish Encyclopedia_, ‘Holiness’ (London and New York: Funk & Wagnalls).

80 – See foot-note p. 218.

81 – Greatest of Mishna teachers; mystic, warrior, and martyr (132 C.E.).

82 – Companion of Akiba; declared the brotherhood of man to be the fundamental principle of religion.

83 – Most renowned of the Rabbis; born in Babylon about one hundred years before the Destruction of the Temple (70 C.E.).

84 – Died in the middle of the first century.

85 – Lived 135‒220; ‘Patriarch’ and editor of the Mishna.

86 – Mishna teacher of the 2nd century.

87 – Mishna teacher of the 2nd century.

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Transcriber’s note:

Punctuation has been standardized.

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Index references have not been checked for accuracy.

Changes made

Page 112: Sentence starting: And through the rushing.... – ‘speakly’ replaced with ‘speaking’ (speaking sweetly as a violin.)

Page 218: Sentence starting: When the Temple at Jerusalem.... – ‘Wordly’ replaced with ‘Worldly’ (when Worldly Wisdom would)

Page 237: Sentence starting: Israel appears before God.... – ‘Atonenent’ replaced with ‘Atonement’ (on the Atonement Day)

Page 325: Sentence starting: 36. Achad Ha’am:... – ‘Ahad’ replaced with ‘Achad’ (Achad Ha’am:)

Page 359: Sentence starting: Bontzye Shweig,... – ‘169’ replaced with ‘109’ (Bontzye Shweig, 109 ff.)

Page 361: Sentence starting: .... – ‘Azariah’ replaced with ‘Azaryah’ (Eleazar ben Azaryah, 19.)