The Home and the Synagogue of the Modern Jew: Sketches of Modern Jewish Life and Ceremonies |
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... months old , his father is obliged to instruct him in the observances relating to them ; and to impress upon him the ... month the child is taught nothing else but their sublime holiness . When he has at- tained the age of thirteen years ...
... months old , his father is obliged to instruct him in the observances relating to them ; and to impress upon him the ... month the child is taught nothing else but their sublime holiness . When he has at- tained the age of thirteen years ...
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... months . The ideal of female beauty among the Barbary Jewesses , like that of many Eastern nations , consists in the graceful undulations of the figure being embedded in the grossest corpulence . Many of the young Moroqueen Jewesses are ...
... months . The ideal of female beauty among the Barbary Jewesses , like that of many Eastern nations , consists in the graceful undulations of the figure being embedded in the grossest corpulence . Many of the young Moroqueen Jewesses are ...
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... months after my arrival at Brussels the old man died . I was present at his obsequies , and an account of how the funeral of a true orthodox Jew is conducted may be interesting . As the old man's end was rapidly approaching , a long ...
... months after my arrival at Brussels the old man died . I was present at his obsequies , and an account of how the funeral of a true orthodox Jew is conducted may be interesting . As the old man's end was rapidly approaching , a long ...
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... months after the death of his father to repeat this prayer . This is one great reason why Jewish parents are so anxious for male issue , as females are not allowed to say it . Jews , who have no male children , frequently adopt a son ...
... months after the death of his father to repeat this prayer . This is one great reason why Jewish parents are so anxious for male issue , as females are not allowed to say it . Jews , who have no male children , frequently adopt a son ...
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... month of Ab , or about the middle of July , because , according to tradition , on that day it was decreed that the generation who left Egypt should die in the wilderness ; on that day , the first and second temples were destroyed ; on ...
... month of Ab , or about the middle of July , because , according to tradition , on that day it was decreed that the generation who left Egypt should die in the wilderness ; on that day , the first and second temples were destroyed ; on ...
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according animal Ashmedai blemish Blessed art Thou blood boards bread bride bring burnt called ceremony children of Israel Christian commanded congregation covenant Day of Atonement dead defiled Deut Divine drink dwell eaten Exod fast father Fcap Feast of Tabernacles festival firstling flesh fringes garments Gentile Ghetto give Haman hand hast heart heave offerings Hebrew High Priest holy land holy things idols Israelite Jerusalem Jewesses Jewish Judaism Kagal King leavened Levites m'zuzah married meat Messiah Moses nations oral law Paschal lamb Passover Pentateuch perfect faith phylacteries poor prayers precepts prophet Purim Rabbi race redeem rejoice Roman Jews Sabbath sacred sacrifice saith the Lord sanctified Scripture shalt thou Solomon synagogue talith Talmud temple thee thine Thou shalt trespass offering unclean unto the Lord whilst whole wife wine words worship written xviii xxii xxiii Zion
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Page 195 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 196 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 197 - And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
Page 200 - And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes : but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers
Page 69 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered ; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Page 13 - ... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 103 - Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's : for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Page 104 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 195 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope...
Page 196 - The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.