GENERAL INDEX.
Reading edition
Abib, month of, 59, 362, 363.
Abstinence, 320.
Adar, 362, 363, 369, 411.
Additions, apocryphal, 131.
Additional prayer (or sacrifice), 345, 408, 435.
Adultery, 261.
Afikuman, 382, 386.
Agadah, 138.
Aged, the, 317.
Allegorical headings of psalms, 94; of proverbs, 97.
Almsgiving, 303.
Al-tikre, 204.
Amidah, 225, 359, 404, 436, 437.
Ancient Versions, 204.
Angels, 250.
Anglican Version revised by M. Friedländer, 224.
Anniversary of the death of a relative, 495.
Anthropomorphism, 41.
Apocrypha, 127.
Arba-kanfoth, 329.
Ark, 424.
Ascetism, 320.
Associate, 309.
Atheism, 27, 143 sq.
Atonement, Day of, 59, 206, 329, 342, 346, 353, 400, 405 sq.; Vicarious, 224
Attributes of God, 39, 171; the thirteen, 45.
Authenticity of the Pentateuch, 134, 202; of Isaiah, 212.
Azharoth, 241.
Bar-mitsvah, 347, 481.
Benediction of the priests, 442.
Benedictions. See Berachoth.
Berachoth, 283, 329, 334, 341, 348, 352, 357, 359, 377, 382, 385, 397, 410, 411, 437 sqq., 442; form of obligatory, 444.
Beth-din, 237, 445.
Beth ha-keneseth, 423.
Beth ha-midrash, 348, 469.
Betrothal, 484.
Bible, the, 56 sqq.; Hebrew names of, 56 sqq.; headings of the books of, 56; —and Science, 33; figurative speech in, 176; interpretation of, 175; criticism, 210.
Blessings. See Berachoth.
Blood, 416, 459, 465.
Booths, 395.
Burden ( = prophecy), 191.
Burial, 492; Service, 493.
Calendar, 59, 360 sqq.
Cause, the first, 30, 171, 174; intermediate causes, 171.
Caviare, 461.
Centre of universe, 182.
Chalet, 474.
Chanuccah, 409.
Charity, 302, 469.
Children, 305.
Chizzuk-emunah, 226.
Chol-hammoëd, 390, 397.
Christianity, 225.
Chronicles, The Books of the, 87; contents of, 126; sources of, 127.
Chukkoth haggoyim, 428.
Circumcision, 58, 336, 478.
Citron, 396.
Civil marriage and divorce, 488.
Cleanness, 206.
Comforting mourners, 302, 493.
Commandments, the Ten, 195, 247 sqq.; Divine, 239; division and number of, 239 sqq.
Communion with God, 279, 422.
Community, 312.
Confession, 288, 407.
Contentment, 103.
Controversy between God and Israel, 83.
Covenant with God, 170; of Abraham, 336, 478; new, 74, 216.
Covering the head, 427, 444, 467.
Creation, 22 sqq., 177 sqq., 255, 269, 403; successive, 181; Creator, 174.
Cuzari. See Kuzari.
Daniel, 50; Book of, 87, 116 sq., 205; contents of, 118; date of composition, 214; mysterious numbers, 163.
Day, 360; days of the week, 473; of Atonement, 59, 206, 288, 329, 342, 346, 353, 401 sq., 405 sqq.; of blowing the shofar, 206; of Judgment, 404; of the Lord, 80; of Memorial, 404.
Days of the Omer, 392; end of days, 213.
Decalogue. See Ten Commandments.
Deism, 29.
Destruction of the Temple, 403, 412.
Deuteronomy, 60 sqq., 208.
Devotion, 419; —and wickedness, 235.
Dietary Laws, 59, 206, 235, 237, 455 sqq.
Dishonesty, 293.
Divine worship, 413.
Divorce, 487.
Duty, 233 sqq.; towards God, 273; towards our fellow-men, 292 sqq.; towards ourselves, 319; of the heart, 173.
East, praying towards, 425.
Earth, smallness of the, 182.
Ecclesiastes, 87, 114, 154, 321, 399.
Education, 324, 471, 479 sqq.
Efficacy of prayer, 44, 183, 422 sqq.
Eighteen, the, scil. Blessings, 430, 437.
Elders, 60.
Elohim, 196, 211.
Employers and employed, 313.
Emunah, 4, 17.
Emunah-ramah, 171, 205, 219.
Emunoth ve-deoth, 10, 171, 218.
Enmity, 309.
Eternity of matter, 33.
Ethrog, 396.
Existence of God. See God.
Eve of Sabbath, 340 sq., 361; of Festivals, 340, 372, 474.
Evil, 221.
Evil tongue, 298.
Evolution, 180.
Faith, 5; Principles of, 20 sqq.; fundamental principles of, 170, 173.
Fast, 329, 342, 406; of Tammuz, 412; of Ab, of Gedaliah, and of Tebeth, 412; of Esther, 412; of the First-born, 373.
Fate, 147.
Feast of Dedication, 409; of Lots, 411; of Tabernacles, 395, 426; of Weeks, 393; the Scholars 392.
Festivals, 59, 235, 289, 339, 346, 435; the Three, 369; solemn, 400; eve of, 474 sq.
Figurative speech in the Psalms, 89 sqq.
Figures of speech in the Scriptures, 176.
First Cause. See Cause.
Flood, 48.
Folly and wisdom, 102.
Forbearance, 310.
Fraud, 293.
Freewill, 146, 173, 220.
Friendship, 306.
Funeral rites, 494.
Gan-eden, 223.
Gehinnom, 223.
Gemara, 137.
Geonim, 434.
Gezeroth, 139.
Gloves in Synagogues, 444.
God, 22 sqq.; attributes of, 39; belief in, 248; blessing of, 101; children of, 42; dependence of man on, 112; eternity of, 43, 173; existence of, 22, 171 sq., 369, 389, 404; faith in, 277; fear of, 102, 273; House of, 42, 423; immutability of, 45, 185; incorporeality of, 41, 173; justice of, 100, 112, 170, 404; kindness of, 45; love of, 274; man of, 190; names of, 196, 211; omnipotence of, 44; omniscience, 101, 112, 173; perfection of, 173; prescience of, 220; providence of, 170; Spirit of, 39; unity of, 38, 171, 173, 249, 388, 436, 491; ways of, 290; Will of, 39, 101, 178; wisdom of, 39, 112; Word of, 191; directs man’s actions, 101; is our Father, 42; loves the good, 100; protects the weak, 100.
Gratitude, 275.
Greetings, 402, 475.
Guide of Maimonides, 14, 174, 182, 198, 202, 218.
Habhdalah, 254, 340, 343.
Haggadah, 372, 379.
Hagiographa, 87.
Halachah, 138.
Hallel, 96, 379, 387.
Handicraft, 322.
Hanuccah. See Chanuccah.
Haphtarah, 345, 347 sq.
Headings of Biblical books, 56.
Hebrew, 420, 480; letters, 135.
Hechal, 424, 481.
Hell, 223.
Holiness, 59, 290.
Holy Spirit, 200.
Home service, 476.
Honesty, 103, 293.
Honey, 466.
House of God, 42, 423.
Husband and wife, 106, 310.
Idolatry, 236, 250.
Ikkarim, 188, 201, 202, 219.
Immortality of the soul, 164.
Immutability of God. See God.
Immutability of the Law. See Law.
Incorporeality of God, 41, 173.
Industry, 103, 322.
Inspiration, 52, 173.
Instruments, musical, 93.
Integrity of the Pentateuch. See Pentateuch.
Interest, 294.
Ittur soferim, 203.
Jewish life, 467.
Jubilee, 59, 402.
Judaism, 2, 236.
Judges, 63.
Judgments, 240.
Justice of God. See God.
Kaddish, 434, 441, 448, 494.
Karaism, 210.
Kasher, 378, 463.
Kedushah, 434, 447.
Keri-u-Khethib, 203.
Kiddush, 254, 340, 342, 379.
Kindness of God. See God.
Kindness, to our fellow-men, 301; to animals, 318.
King and people, 106.
Kings, the Book of, 65.
Kittel, 492.
Knowledge, 323.
Kodashim, 138.
Kol-nidre, 408.
Kuzari, 13, 172, 218.
La-alukah, 98.
Labour forbidden on Holy-days, 349.
Lamentations, 87, 113, 413.
Law, of Moses, 87; oral, 136, 236; written, 136, 236; foundation of the, 72; immutability of the, 139, 215; object of the, 242; Rabbinical laws, 219; abrogation of any of the laws, 417; temporary suspense of a law, 141.
Leap-year, 362, 367.
Legalism, 234.
Leïthiel, 98.
Levites, 93.
Light, continual, 426; Sabbath lights, 358; festival lights, 358; Chanuccah lights, 410.
Maamadoth, 433.
Maarib, 408, 435.
Machzor, 363, 391; Vitry, 434.
Magen-david, 427.
Magicians, 193.
Magistrates, 318.
Man and his fellow-man, 106, 292.
Marriage, 58; laws, 59; rites, 484; civil, 488; mixed marriages, 489.
Massorah, 55; Masoretic points, 203; Masoretic text, 266.
Master and servant, 315.
Mazzol-tob, 486.
Mechilta, 137.
Medabberim, 220.
Meekness, 103.
Megilloth, 87.
Messages of comfort, 70.
Messiah, 156, 161; days of, 69, 82, 85, 161, 225, 228; Name of, 73; —b. David and b. Joseph, 230; prophecies concerning, 75.
Methurgeman, 349, 432.
Mezuzah, 270, 335, 468.
Midrash, 137, 180, 413; interpretation, 384.
Mikra, 57, 479.
Milah, 477.
Minhag, 139, 242, 420, 435, 444.
Minor prophets, 78.
Minyan, 441, 472.
Miracles, 32, 192.
Mishnah, 137.
Mishneh-torah (of Maimonides), 139, 197, 202, 217, 241.
Mission of Israel, 156.
Moderation, 103.
Modesty, 261, 427, 472.
Moëd, 138.
Mohel, 478.
Molad, 364.
Monday, 413, 473.
Monotheism, 39.
Month, 361; Hebrew names of months, 362.
Moon, 361, 476.
Mourners, 491.
Mourning customs, 494.
Murder, 236, 259.
Musaph, 345, 435.
Music in Synagogue, 428.
Myrtle, 396.
Name, of God, 287; sanctification of God’s, 289.
Nashim, 138.
Natural religion, 22.
Nazirite, 320.
Neïlah, 408, 436.
Nezikin, 138.
New-moon, 219, 346, 364, 435
New-year, 402 sq.
Night-prayer, 440.
Nisan, 362, 363, 371, 372.
Nistaroth, 6.
Nitsachon, 226.
Oath, 252.
Obedience, 276.
Omer, counting of, 389; days of the counting of the, 392.
Omnipotence, 44, 215.
Omniscience, 148, 215.
Order of Service, 381, 429, 434.
Pantheism, 26.
Parable, of the dry bones, 78; of Jotham, 64; of Nathan, 65; of the vineyard, 67.
Paradise, 223.
Parallelism, 89.
Parents and children, 106.
Passover, 59, 206, 207, 372, sqq.; lamb, 374; second, 60, 375.
Patriotism, 310.
Penitential days, 402.
Pentateuch, 57; contents of, 58; authenticity and integrity of the, 134, 202; transcribed by Ezra, 135; quoted in other books of the Bible, 206; found in the Temple, 207.
Peoth, 467.
Pharisees, 170.
Piel form of verbs, 182.
Piyyutim, 434, 452.
Polytheism, 25.
Prayer, 280 sqq., 418 sqq.; of Habakkuk, 83; of Hannah, 65; of Solomon, 66; attitude during, 444; efficacy of, 44, 183, 280, 422; language of, 420; length and form of, 421; object of, 183; place of, 423; time of, 429; —at fixed times, 434; night, 440; for the Sovereign, 311; —and immutability of God, 189.
Prayer-meetings 449.
Precepts, 234; their importance 235; number, 238; division, 240.
Predestination, 147.
Preparation for Sabbaths, Festivals, and Fasts, 474.
Prescience of God, 220.
Priests, 59, 87; priests’ benediction, 442.
Prophecy, 46, 173, 192; Maimonides on, 198.
Prophets, 49; messengers of God, 50; training of, 51, 201; sons of the, 52; truthfulness of the, 131, 192; false, 73; books of the, 62; earlier, 62; latter, 52, 62, 66; lessons from the, 345.
Proverbs, Book of, 87, 96; contents of, 97; allegorical headings in, 97.
Psalms, 87; authors, 91; contents, 88; figures, 89; headings, 92; figurative headings, 94; historical headings, 94; names of, 92; their object, 88, 96; order, 95; play upon words, 91; poetical forms, 89; recensions, 96; rhyme, 89; in the Prayer-book, 96, 439.
Purim, 116, 370, 411.
Punishment, 142 sqq.; eternal, 223.
Rabbinical laws, 138, 219.
Rabbinism, 210.
Rabboth, 137.
Rainbow, 48.
Reading the Law and the Prophets, 345, 432.
Redemption of Israel, 403.
Release, year of, 59, 75.
Religion, 1.
Reminders of God’s Presence, 328, 468.
Resignation, 277, 284, 494.
Responsa, 242.
Restoration of Zion, 157, 416.
Resurrection, 164, 231, 403.
Retribution, 100, 142, 150, 221, 436.
Revelation, 6, 25, 46 sqq., 170, 190, 394; on Mount Sinai, 47, 194, 393, 403.
Reverence, 275.
Reward and punishment. See Retribution.
Rich and poor, 106, 316.
Righteousness, 103.
Rites, 435.
Ritual, 429; in the Temple, 432; in the Talmud, 433; variations in the, 349, 354, 392, 401, 402, 437.
Sabbath, 58, 72, 206, 219, 235, 254, 289, 339, 434, 475; bread, 357; journey, 350; lights, 358.
Sacrifices, 59, 152, 217, 414, 416; restoration of, 162, 417.
Sadducees, 170, 393.
Samaritans, 170, 205.
Sanctification of God’s Name, 250, 289; of Sabbaths and Festivals, 340.
Sandek, 478.
Sanhedrin, 60, 237, 365, 423.
Sargenes, 492.
Satan, 85, 108.
Scepticism, 33 sqq.
Scripturalists, 210.
Seasons of the Lord, 276, 339.
Second Holy-days, 366.
Sedarim, 138.
Seder-evening, 480 sqq.
Sefer (or sepher), 481; meonah, zatute, hee, 203.
Selichoth, 401.
Semites, 48.
Sermon, 448.
Servant of God (Israel), 159.
Service, Divine, 284, 345, 408, 413 sqq.
Seventy weeks, 123.
Shalet. See Chalet.
Shalom-zachar, 477.
Shaving, 467.
Shema, 431, 436 sqq.
Shofar, 400, 403.
Shulchan-aruch, 139, 241 sq.
Shushan Purim, 412.
Sidra, 61, 482.
Sifra, 137.
Sifre, 137.
Sign, 68.
Simchath-torah, 398, 480.
Sinew that shrank, 58, 461.
Sivan, 362, 363, 393, 401.
Solemn days, 400 sqq.
Song of David, 65; of Deborah, 64; of Solomon, 87, 112, 390.
Sons of God, 108.
Sovereign, 318.
Spirit, Holy, 200; of the Lord, 87, 190.
Statutes, 239.
Stranger, 295, 303.
Strengthening of the faith, 226.
Superiors and inferiors, 313.
Superstition, 251, 476, 477, 496.
Swearing, 252.
Symbols of good wishes, 487.
Synagogue, 423 sqq., 469.
Tabernacle, 424.
Tabernacles, festival of, 206 sq., 219, 395 sqq.
Taharoth, 138.
Tal, 391.
Talith, 329.
Talmud, Babylonian and Palestinian or Jerusalem, 137.
Tammuz, 362, 363; Fast of, 401, 412.
Targum, 204, 349, 440.
Tashlich, 405.
Teacher and pupil, 314.
Teaching, 286.
Tebeth, 362, 363; Fast of, 412.
Tebhah, 424.
Tefillah, 435, 437.
Tefillin, 270, 331, 337 sqq.
Tekanoth, 139, 242.
Temperance, 103.
Temple, 424; destruction of the, 403; rebuilding of the, 161, 416, 443.
Ten Commandments, division of the, 266. See Commandments.
Tetragrammaton, 196, 211.
Thanksgiving, 443.
Theft, 262, 293.
Theism, 29.
Thirteen Attributes of God, 45.
Thirteen Principles, 20 sqq.
Thrift, 103.
Thursday, 413, 473.
Tikkune Soferim, 203.
Tishri, 206, 362, 363, 402 sqq.
Tithe, 470.
Torah, 4, 57 sqq.; study of the, 285, 326, 469.
Tradition, 6, 137, 212.
Traditionalists, 210.
Truthfulness, 103, 325.
Tsitsith, 60, 329.
Tuesday, 473.
Tur, 241, 337, 465.
Unbelief, 143.
Union of Judah and Israel, 78.
Unity of God. See God.
Valley of Hinnom, 73.
Variæ lectiones in Bible, 53, 203.
Version, Chaldee, 204, 349; Greek, Spanish, 349.
Vision, 191; of the chariot, 75.
Visiting the sick, 302, 491.
Wednesday, 473.
Willows of the brook, 396.
Wine, 340, 379.
Wisdom, and folly, 102; Book of, 127; of Sirach, 128 sq.
Woman, 470; disqualification of, 471; modesty and reservedness of, 472; in Synagogue, 472.
World, the future, 222.
Worship of God, 280, 289, 413 sqq.
Yahrzeit, 495.
Yalkut, 137.
Year, 362; beginning of the, 402.