AARON-His death why bewailed, 270.-His delay respecting the molten calf, 199.- Why he did not die with the offenders, 199.
ABRAHAM-Anecdote of, 58.-Disputed with the Chaldean Sages, 58.-The reason of being tried, 72.-Thrown into a fiery fur- nace, 58. Why called Hebrew, 58. ADAM-An appellation common to male and female, 17.-And Eve how created, 17. -Animal food not given to, 18.-Food allotted to him, 18.-Precepts given to him, 276.-Sentence against him how understood, 28.-The prototype of Isaac, 73.
ALLEGORY-Of a colloquy with the moon, 10.-Of R. Isaac Arama, 116.
AMALEK-Why to be hated and destroyed, 144.
AMBIGUITY-Has caused much mischief, 93. -Of Genesis 49:10, 93. ANGELS-Instruments of the Most High, 70, 91.-Learn what they knew not, 75. -Meant by the light of the first day, 5. -The ten degrees of, 152.-When as- sume the name of the First Cause, 70.- When created, 23.
ARK OF THE COVENANT-Supposed to have been two, 247.-What it contained, 299. ASTEROTH-its meaning, 160. ATTRIBUTES-God's, where specified and explained, 205.
AUTHOR'S-Address to the reader, ix. BAAL-A name given to the Sun, 159. BABYLONIAN-Captivity its cause, 62.- Joke on marriage, 29.
BIBLE-Number of each letter in it, 250.- The Hebrew never vitiated, 250.-The Latin and Greek frequently vary, 250. BIOGRAPHICAL-Account of the Author,xiii. -Notices of authors quoted, xvii. BIRDS-Of what created, 11.-Some wor- shipped by heathen, 160.
BLESSINGS-And curses, how delivered, 294. BODY OF MAN-A symbol of the Tetragram-
maton, 111.-Termed flesh and blood, 32. CABALA-Its rules derived from Scripture, 209-The necessity and meaning of it,
CABALISTS-Compared to physicians, 208. -Opinion of the duration of the world, 43. CALF-The molten, cause of it, 198.-Jo-
sephus makes no mention of it, 201.-
The intention of it, 200.-Why made of gold, 198.-Why that figure chosen, 199. CAPTIVITY-Duration of the Egyptian, 61. -Duration of this and the Egyptian not plainly revealed, 63.-How revealed to Abraham, 60. The Babylonian, its cause, 62. CARAITES-During the Second Temple, 216. -When revived, 216. CHARITY-How it should be given, 181.- Priority of claim to it, 284.-The benefit of doing, 181.-Should not be unneces- sarily asked, 147.
CHASTISEMENT-Of love its meaning, 68. CHERUBIM-Difference between those of the Tabernacle and Temple, 191.
CHILDREN-How and when perish for their fathers, 165.
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER-Not strictly at- tended to in Scripture, 49.
CIRCLE Of all things commence and end with God, 3.-Divided into semicircles, 3. CLEMENCY-To be practised towards ani- mals, 37.
COVENANT-Meaning of the word, 242.- New, how explained, 240.
CREATION-Every thing created in perfec-
tion, 127.-Of Adam and Eve, 17.-The order of the, 7.
CREATURES-All created in perfection, 127. DAGON-Its figure and signification, 160. DAVID-Comparison between the moon and the kingdom of, 54.-God's instrument, 300.-Sinned in numbering the people, 197.-Why pestilence, war, or famine, were offered him, 198.
DAY OF JUDGMENT-Why New Year is termed a, 275.
DEATH-Of Aaron why greatly deplored, 270.-Three kinds mentioned by David, 184.-Why good, 20.
DECALOGUE-Confirmatory of the creation, 173.-Explanation of its delivery, 148.- Why given in the Desert, 149. DELUGE-Announced 120 years previous, 34.-Duration of, explained, 38. DEODAND-Its foundation and meaning,
DEUTERONOMY- Commences, 274.
DILIGENCE-And care recommended, 115. DREAMS-A curious one foretold, 255.- Different description of, 254.-Impossi bilities never dreamt, 255.-The causes of, 254.-Prophetic, how known, 256.
EARTH-Arranged before the heavens, 2.- Corporeal members attributed to it, how to be understood, 47.-Could not be without heaven, 3.
ELYSIAN FIELDS-Whence the appellation is supposed to be derived, 160. EQUIVOCATION-May be used for a good purpose, 50.-What termed so, 50. ESAU-Why he resigned Canaan to Jacob, 82.-Settled in Seir, 82. EUPHRATES-Whence the name derived, 27. EVIL-Desires, why good, 20.-May be bene- ficial, 67.-Eye, irrational creatures guard against it, 195.-Eye, learned men do not deny it, 195.-Eye, whence arises, 195.- Eye, whether it exists or not, 194. EXCELLENCE-Of ancient music, 249.-Of Nos. 5 and 6, 106.-Of No. 10, 105.- Of the Tetragrammaton, 107. Of the square root, 106.
EXODUS-Commences, 100.
FALSEHOOD-Three descriptions of, 51.. FEAR-Servile and reverential, 76.-Rever- ential, a theological virtue, 76.
FIRST-Born, why to have precedence, 80. -Born, how exchanged with the Levites, 248.-Born, how resemble the First Cause, 80.-Understood by logicians in four ways, 1.
FOOD-Animal, permitted to Noah, 19.- What first given to man, 18. FOWLS-Worshipped by the Babylonians,
FREE WILL-Always possessed by man, 113. -Hebrew writers on the subject, 121.- Proved by authority, reason and experi- ence, 113.-Proved in the case of Balaam,
FRIENDSHIP-Of God, how to be under- stood, 77.
GENESIS-Commences, 1. GOD-Acts in the world by intermediate means, 70.-Descending, how to be under- stood, 46.-Ever rewards good actions, 79. Has pleasure, its meaning, 36.- His names explained, 111.-How corpo- real members are attributed to, 47.-How He is termed "Friend," 77.-Immediate cause of miracles, 261.-Is the efficient, formal, and final cause of all beings, 106. -Is merciful in judgment, 138.-No con- ception can be formed of, 188.-Propor- tions himself to the weakness of man, 137.-Remembering Noah, how to be un- derstood, 39.-Repents not, 35.-The beginning and end of a circle, 3.-The origin of first beauty, 8.-The proximate agent of miracles, 70.-What he con- sulted in making man, 13.-Why corpo- real members are attributed to, 47. GLOBE-An explanation of the, 158. GRANDFATHERS-Termed fathers in Scrip- ture, 100.
HAPPINESS The fruit of good conduct, 72. HEAVEN-Could not be without earth, 3. -Created simultaneously with the earth,
HEBREW-Derivation of the name, 60, 58. HELL-Why good, 20.
HEZEKIAH-How his life was prolonged,
HUR-Killed for opposing the people, 199. I-AM, its signification, 103.
IDEAS-Plato's, agree with the Cabalists,
IDOLATRY-Descriptions of, forbidden in the Decalogue, 163.-When commenced, 30. IMAGE-Explanation of the Hebrew word,
INFERIORS-affect superiors, 36.
ISAAC-His likeness to Adam, 73.—Why considered the root of Israel, 73. ISAIAH-Why put to death, 187. ISRAEL-Have no common beggars, 284. -In Egypt 210 years, 61.-Meaning of the name, 83.-Not under planetary in- fluence, 275, 278.-Their comparison to the heavens, 53.-Their order at the de- livery of the Decalogue, 238.-Why liken- ed to the stars, dust, and sea-sand, 52.- Why termed Hebrews, 58, 60. JACOB-Purchased the birthright on the day Abraham died, 80.-Reason for seeking to get the primogeniture, 78.-Why at- tached to Esau's heel, 78.-Why he had the name of Israel, 83. JAH-Its signification, 103.
JUBILEE-The Cabalistic opinion of the, 43. JUDGMENT-Why new year is termed a day of, 275.
KING-Manasseh put Isaiah to death, 188.
-Manasseh corrupted the Law, 296.- Why Israel sinned in asking one, 286. KINGDOM-Of David compared to the moon,
LAND-Of Promise, how partitioned, 267. LAW-Adapted to the capacity of mankind,
177.-God's name erased from it, 296. -Its observers not under planetary influ- ence, 185.-Never forgot by Israel, 297. -Never to be changed by another, 235. -Of Moses a model for all others, 186. -Of Moses to be everlasting, 235.-Proofs of its perfection, 235.-The Oral Law where indicated, 206.-The book of the, found by Hilkiah, 297.-The necessity of it shewn, 214.-Perfect in the moral, ceremonial, and judicial, precepts, 235.— Where kept in the ark, 250.-Why given with thunder, lightning, and voices, 150. -Why recommenced as soon as ended annually, 175.
LETTERS-Excellence of those forming the Tetragrammaton, 105.-Excellence of those forming the word ¬ “I AM,” 105.-Number of each in the Hebrew Bible, 250.-Number of each in the Pen- tateuch, 250.-The root of every thing, 105.-The world created by them, 109. LEVITES-How exchanged for the first-born, 248.-Taught music scientifically, 248. LEVITICUS Commences, 218.
LIBERALITY-Two modes of exercising it,
LIFE-How prolonged, 185.-Its cause, 183. LIGHT-Differs from darkness in three things,
5. From the first, four proceeded, 7.- Of the first day, what it was, 4.-The, God shewed himself in, 5. LOTS-How drawn by the first-born, 250. -For the partition of the Holy Land, 267. MAN-And woman created together, 17.— How made in the image and likeness of God, 15.-In what similar to angels, 14. -Means body and soul, 24.-Partakes of all the worlds, 14.-It would have been better had he not been made, 22. MANNA-Its various flavours, 142. MEDITATION-And study require solitude,
MANASSEH-King, erased God's name from the book of the law, 296.-W hy he put Isaiah to death, 274, 187. MERCY-Of God seen in all his works, 20. -Of God surpasses his justice at least 500 times, 168.
MIRACLES-Performed by, or for Moses, 304. --Performed by, or for other prophets,306. MOLOCH-An appellation given to the sun, 159.
MOON-Created in Aries, 10.-Created in
opposition to the sun, 10.-How like the kingdom of David, 54.-Not to be wor- shipped, 285.-Receives its light from the sun, 10.-Why called both great and small light, 10.
MOSES-Asked of God a possibility and an impossibility, 201.-Did not require prayer to perform his miracles, 302.-Difference between his prophesies and those of other prophets, 186.-Fulfilled his full term of life, 140.-Had direct revelation, 202.- In four points excelled other prophets, 202.-In what superior to other prophets, 302.-In what way he excelled other pro- phets, 301, 56.-King, legislator, prophet, and priest, 238.-Saw in a clear mirror, 186.
MUSIC-Power of ancient, 249.-Taught the Levites, 248.-Vocal requires harmony,
186. NAME-Given at the time of circumcision, 84.-Of God, their explanation, 110.- Why Abraham's was changed, 84. NEW YEAR-Why termed a day of judg- ment, 275.
NISAN-Commencement of the sacred and regal year, 127.
NOAH-The seven precepts of, 276.-Why
animal food was permitted to him, 18. NOTES by the Translator-On Ancient music, 249.-Anecdote of Abraham, 58.-An opi- nion of Maimonides,215.-The Babylonian captivity, 63.-Cabala, 92.-On change of words and letters, 212.-Deodand, 180.- On the differences of Shamai and Hilel, 2. -The Divine presence, 89.-On the di- vision of the earth, 46.-On the dupli- cation of Hebrew words, 28.-On the Hebrew Bible, 250.-On the Holy Land
being the best part of the globe, 27.- On an interpolation, 126.-The incorrect- ness of Whiston's Josephus, 172.-On individual prayer, 274.-Joshua reverenc- ing the angel, 164.-To avoid materiality, 109.-The necessity of an Oral Law, 231, 217.-On Plato being taught by Jere- miah, 8.-On prayer against the Evil Eye, 196.-Respecting the Caraites, 216. -Sacrifices related in our Ritual, 223.- The Saducees, 63.-The Sephirot, 91.- How seven times vanity is reckoned, 21. -Set form of prayer not to be deviated from, 233.-On Sight, 195.-Of those for whom their is no salvation, 276.- On tradition, 214.-A translation from the Hebrew, 137.-On the Urim and Thummim, 267.-Why the in the Te- tragrammaton is incomplete, 109.-Why the roots of Hebrew words are of three letters, 111.-On the word ¡nn, 101.—
NUMBERS-Commences, 246.-5 and 6, their peculiarities, 106.-One, the beginning of every thing, 105.-Ten, the end of all and most perfect, 105. OPINIONS-Of R. Simeon ben Jochai on the Oral Law, 207.-Of Maimonides on voli- tion, 114.-Of the ancients that Eve was created with Adam, 17.-On the cause of miracles, 261.-On the creation of heaven and earth, 1.-On the duration of life, 184. On the duration of the world, 43. -On the light of the first day, 4.-On the period of the creation, 127.-On the original work, vii.-Respecting dreams, 253.- Respecting the Tetragrammaton, 103.
Ox-The, worshipped by the Egyptians, 200. -The, venerated in Greece and the East, 200.
PATRIARCHS-Above planetary influence,56. -Acquainted with the Tetragrammaton,
PEACE Offered before war commenced, 293. -Offered in two modes by Joshua, 293. -Offered, the two nations that accepted, 293.
PENITENCE-Obtains pardon for sin, 118.— Will shorten the present captivity, 63. PHARAOH-Induration of his heart, how to be understood, 118.
PHILOSOPHERS-Ancient, admit only what reason would demonstrate, 73. PLATO-A disciple of Jeremiah or Baruch, 8. PRAYER-Better in a congregation than in- dividually, 275.-Should be for proper objects, 276.-To be addressed to the First Cause only, 91.-When began, 31.-When most perfect and acceptable, 274. PRECEPTS-Four modes of observing them, 228. Given to Adam and Noah, 277.- May be suspended but not annulled,
PREFACE The Translator's, v.
PRIEST-Levites termed, 250.-Means a
minister of any religion, 153.-The mean- ing of the word translated, 153. PROPHETESSES-Seven in Israel, 54. PROPHETS-Inquire why some things ap- parently unjust occur, 65.-False, how to be known, 283.-The number of, in Israel, 54. Those not required to give signs, 291, 282.-When to be credited, 290, 283.
PUNISHMENT-Why good, 20. QUESTIONS-Of Alexander to some Sages,
1.-On borrowing vessels of gold and sil- ver, 126.-Of a Duke to R. Gamliel, 11. -On the duration of the earth, 41.-If Elijah was fed by ravens, 226.-Whether heaven or earth was created first, 1.— How the soul unites with the body, 221. -How sacrifices attracted the Divinity, 221.-As to the light of the first day, 4.- Whether the molten calf was worshipped as a deity, 200.-On the number of Le- vites, 247.-On the seniority of Noah's sons, 32.-Whether tribes might inter- marry or not, 231.
RAVEN-Why sent by Noah from the ark, 226.
REASON-Why Abraham could call Sarah
his sister, 50.-Why Abraham ceased to be called Abram, 84.-Why animal food was granted to Noah, 18.-Why Balaam was forbidden to curse Israel, 266.-Why the blood of the Paschal Lamb was put on the doorpost, 133.-Why bread was put between two cloths, 141.-Why the Decalogue was given in the Desert, 149. -Why the Egyptian and the present cap- tivity are not plainly revealed, 63.-Of God trying a person, 72.-Why the good may experience troubles, 67.-Why Israel re- tained the name of Jacob, 84.-Why Israel sinned in demanding a king, 286.—Why Joshua reverenced the angel, 164.—Why the seven nations were driven from their land, 279.-Why the wicked sometimes prosper, 65.
REDEMPTION-Why the future one is hidden, 64.-Why the future will be everlasting, 83.
RELATIVES-Termed brethren in Scripture,
REPENTANCE-In God, how to be under- stood, 35.-Necessary to obtain pardon on Kipur, 276,-What is true, 276. REWARD-Due, given by God to all crea- tures, 277.
RIGHTEOUS-Of all nations partake of the next world, 277.
RULES-Of the Cabalists, 209. SABBATH-Foundation of the articles of faith, 177.-How to be remembered and kept, 171.-Instils three things into the soul, 168.-Is everlasting, 173.-Meaning of the two words, Remember and keep, 170.-Should be dedicated to meditation, 169.-Should not be spent in idleness and
feasting, 169.-Termed the soul of the universe, 25.-The name retained by all nations, 169.-The soul of the world, 177. -Represents the world of rest, 168. SACRIFICES-Their origin and cause, 218.- Their effect, 221.-When permitted any where, 281.-When confined to one place, 281.
SEPHIROT Their meaning, 91.
SEPTUAGINT-Alterations from the Hebrew text, 15, 18, 24, 61, 277, 285. SERVANT-Difference of the Hebrew and Canaanite, 178.
SHEKEL-Its value in Moses' and Nehe- miah's time, 198.-Reason of the half- shekel annually, 194. SHEMITA-Its original meaning, 43.-The two descriptions, 243. SIMILITUDE-Of seven illustrious men of Israel to the planets, 54.-Of the tribes to the signs of the zodiac, 53.
SLEEP Caused by the inward concentration of, 256.-Necessary to all creatures, 176. -Why beneficial, 20.
SOULS-Created on the first day, 14.-Form part of the host of heaven, 24.-How united with the body, 221.-Is what is termed man, 32.-Their three states, 22.
-What connects them with bodies, 16. STANDARDS-Of the tribes, description of the, 161.
STARS-Fill the concavity of heaven, 10. -Fixed in the heavens, 10.-Not created to do good or harm, 185.
STUDY Five impediments to theological, 151.-Requires solitude, 30.
SUN-The, created in Libra, 10.-The, not to be worshipped, 285.-The fountain of light and beauty, 4.
TABERNACLE-What it represented, 154. TABLES-Both written by God, 203.—Why the second were shaped by Moses, 203. TALMUDISTS-Did not require philosophical doctrines, 176.-Found their theology on Scripture, 152.
TEMPLE-HOW the land of it was bought, 281.
TEMPTING-God, a grievous sin, 278. TETRAGRAMMATON-All creatures have its form, 111.-A noun proper, 104.-Im- mutable, 109.-Its amount numerically, 107. Its signification, 103.-Jews do not pronounce it, 107.-Learnt by revelation, 104.-Not found in ancient Chaldaic, As- syrian, nor Greek writings, 107.-When and how pronounced by the high-priest, 107.-Why of only four letters, 106.-. Why not used in the creation, 104. THEFT-HOW punished by the Mosaical and other laws, 180.
TISRI-Proved to be the beginning of the year, 128.
TITHES-Reward for bringing, 279. TRADITION-Necessary to understand the Written Law, 206.
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