INDEX. Abarbanel, 172 Abraham at the door of hell, 625 Agadah, recognized in Jewish Prayer- Ahijah, the Shilonite, fable about, 486 -, may be robbed and slain with impunity, 641 lawful to kill, 8 Amulets, virtues of, 253 Circumcision equivalent to all the meritoriousness of, 625 Angels carry up the sound of the Dead, Rabbinic mourning for, 592 horn at new year, 369 prayers for the, 406 Death, an atonement, 413 15 Hilchoth Avadim, 29 Avel, 592 Berachoth, 101, 103 Deoth, 157 Issure Biah, 90 Kiddush Hachodesh, 141 Matt'nath Aniim, 419 Mikvaoth, 102 Sh'vuoth, 604 Taanith, 298 Talmud Torah, 24, 204 T'shuvah, 5, 341 Jews, persecuted in Spain and Por- Illegitimate, a learned man takes precedence of High Priest, 9 Jonathan, son of Uzziel, 258 book, 3 and of the Jewish Prayer- and Christianity cannot both Levi, privileges of, in the synagogue, Parents, duty to, according to oral law, 12, 13 Christ our, 128 Pentecost prayers, 201 Pharisees, enemies of the Lord bad men, 11 Parents, if in captivity, to be re- Sabbath-day, amulets on, 253 deemed after the Rabbi, 13 Sabbath, laws concerning, 285, 318 Talmud, recognised in Jewish Prayer- legends of, 178, 230 -, no unbroken train of, 483 Treatise, Avodah Zarah, 401 Moed Katon, 242 to be accounted as beasts, 9 Van Oven, Joshua, Esq., Manual of as fornication, 107 101 to neglect, as bad of, 407 of |