rn, he swore he would not go back, protesting that, as he
had never sought to be relieved of the obligation of his oath on
earth, he would not be cajoled or coerced into an act of perjury
within the precincts of heaven. He declined at first to give up
the sword of the angel, and would have stood to his point but
for the echo of a voice which peremptorily ordered its immediate
restoration. (See _Kethuboth_ fol. 77, col. 2.)

Where is it taught that when ten join together in prayer the Shechinah
is with them? In Ps. lxxxii. 4, where it is said, "God standeth in the
congregation of the mighty."

_Berachoth_, fol. 6, col. 1.

According to Rabbinic law, it takes at least ten men to
constitute a legally convened congregation. Nearly a thousand
pounds were expended every year by the synagogues of the
metropolis to hire (minyan) men to make up the congregational
number, and thus ensure the due observance of this regulation.

When the Holy One--blessed be He!--enters the synagogue, and does not
find ten men present, His anger is immediately stirred; as it is said
(Isa. i. 2), "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? When I called,
there was none to answer?"

Ibid., fol. 6, col. 2.

The passion of anger here ascribed to God is by not a few
regarded as an attribute wholly alien to the proper nature of
the Deity. Such, however, is evidently not the judgment of the
Talmudists. Nor is this surprising when we see elsewhere how
boldly they conceive and how freely they speak of the Divine
Majesty. The Rabbis are not in general a shamefaced generation,
and are all too prone to deal familiarly with the most sacred
realities. The excerpts which follow amply justify this
judgment.

God is represented as roaring like a lion, etc., etc.

_Berachoth_, fol. 3, col. 1. See chap. iii.

God is said to wear phylacteries.

_Berachoth_, fol. 6, col. 1.

This is referred to in the morning service for Yom Kippur, where it is
said He showed "the knot of the phylacteries to the meek one" (i.e.,
Moses).

He is said to pray; for it is written (Isa. lvi. 7), "Them will I bring
to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in the house of my prayer." It
is thus He prays: "May it please me that my mercy may overcome my anger,
that all my attributes may be invested with compassion, and that I may
deal with my children in the attribute of kindness, and that out of
reg