Modern Judaism: Or, A Brief Account of the Opinions, Traditions, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Jews in Modern Times, Nide 22;Nide 798T. Hamilton, and Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1816 - 434 sivua John Allen's discussion of Judaism dates to 1816; for many years, it was the authoritative history of the Jews from the time of Abraham through to the modern day. When sourcing the information necessary for this account, the author was discerning and meticulous: the history of the Jews is a topic of enormous depth and scope, requiring the use of holy books and written records often centuries or millennia old. Principally he examines the Holy Bible, and in particular the pertinent Old Testament texts, plus the holy books of the Jews such as the Kabbalah and Talmud. Other more esoteric sources include the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Prayer Book. Each chapter of Modern Judaism includes numerous notes, elaborating further and list the relevant passages. Many wide-ranging aspects of Jewish life are covered; such as how to manage births, marriages, deaths, the preparation of food and the care of pregnant women. The ancient temple and its precepts are extensively narrated, that readers comprehend how the Jewish faith changed and evolved as the centuries passed, with rabbis across the ages contributing to the written lore. This reprint reproduces the tables and Hebrew script of the expanded second edition, which was first published in 1830. |
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... Cabbalists , and to whose autho- rity , in every point in which he is not contradicted by the Talmud , they render an implicit submission . Some learned men have doubted whether these books came from the hands of these rabbies , or ...
... Cabbalists , who have lived chiefly since the tenth century , and have employed themselves in amplifying and commenting upon the dogmas of their predecessors . * The Cabbala is of two kinds , theoretical and practical . The theoretical ...
... Cabbalists formed by decomposing the nineteenth , twentieth , and twenty - first verses of the fourteenth chapter of Exodus , which contain seventy - two letters each , and distributing them into seventy - two which may be rendered ...
... Cabbalists , those divine theologians , as he fre- quently styles them , have thirteen rules by which they are enabled to penetrate the mysteries with which the scriptures abound . By some of these rules the Cabbalists pretend to ...
... Cabbalists , com- pares an investigation of their meaning to an attempt to penetrate a forest through which there is no beaten path , and where every step of the progress is obstructed by briars and thorns . He suggests a doubt whether ...