Jewish Post-Biblical History Through Great Personalities from Jochanan Ben Zakkai Through Moses Mendelssohn |
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Abraham Abraham ibn Ezra Abravanel Akiba Albo Albo's Arabic Babylonia Bachya beautiful became belief Bible Caro century Chasdai Christian Church commentary death devoted disciples divine dogmas Europe exile faith father followed fundamental Gaonim German ghetto Halachah heart Hebrew Hillel holy honor Ibn Ezra Ibn Gabirol influence Inquisition interpretation Isaac Israel Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish history Jochanan Joseph Joseph Albo Joseph Caro Judah Halevi Judaism Karaites king knowledge land literature lived Manasseh Manasseh ben Israel Maranos Meir of Rothenburg Messiah mind Mishnah Mohammed Mohammedan Moses Mendelssohn Moslems mystic Nachmanides Palestine peace persecution philosophy poems poet prayer Prince principles prophets pupils Rabbi Meir Rashi religion religious Rothenburg Saadia Sabbatai Samuel scholars schools Solomon ibn Gabirol song soul Spain Spanish Jews Spinoza spirit suffered synagogue Talmud Tannaim teacher teaching thee thought tion Torah tradition translated writing wrote לין לס נס
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Page 114 - And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Page 198 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more
Page 192 - Is lightened:— that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 206 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 123 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 23 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Page 35 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 43 - HAVE you read in the Talmud of old, In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless realms of the air, — Have you read it, — the marvellous story Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Glory, Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer ? How, erect, at the outermost gates Of the City Celestial he waits, With his feet on the ladder of light, That, crowded with angels unnumbered, By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered Alone in the desert at night ? The...
Page 105 - My duties to the Sultan are very heavy. I am obliged to visit him every day, early in the morning; and when he or any of his children, or any of the inmates of his harem, are indisposed, I dare not quit Kahira, but must stay during the greater part of the day in the palace.
Page 30 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.