t amongst the delights promised by the Talmud after the return to
Palestine will be the permission to eat pork and bacon.--_De l'Harmonie
entre l'Eglise et la Synagogue_, I. 265, 276, quoting treatise Hullin,
folio 17, 82.
[810] Stehelin, op. cit., II. 221-4.
[811] The Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith, _Syria and the Holy Land_, p.
49 (1918).
[812] Zohar, section Schemoth, folio 7 and 9_b_; section Beschalah,
folio 58b (de Pauly's trans., III. 32, 36, 41, 260).
[813] Ibid., section Vayschlah, folio 177_b_ (de Pauly's trans., II. p.
298).
[814] Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, article on the
Kabbala by H. Loewe.
[815] Eugene Tavernier, _La Religion Nouvelle_, p. 265 (1905).
[816] _Jewish Guardian_ for January 25, 1924.
[817] Deuter. ix. 5.
[818] Dan. ix. 11.
[819] Neh. ix. 26.
[820] Isa. i. 1-17. See also Ezek. xx. 13.
[821] _Jewish Guardian_ for October 1, 1920.
[822] Josephus, _The Jewish War_ (Eng. trans.), IV. 170, 334.
[823] Ibid., V. 152.
[824] See, for example, the descriptions of the horrible cruelty
practised in the Jewish schools of Poland in the eighteenth century,
given in _The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon_ (Eng. trans., 1888), p.
32.
[825] Treatise Hullin, folio 27_a_.
[826] Talmud, treatise Sanhedrim (Rodkinson's trans, p. 156).
[827] _Encyclopaedia Britannica_ (1911 edition), article on Lord
Beaconsfield.
[828] Drach, _De l'Harmonie entre l'Eglise et la Synagogue_, II. 336.
This custom is still in force; see the very legitimate complaint of a
Jewess in the _Jewish World_ for December 21, 1923, that women are still
relegated to the gallery "to be hidden behind the grille, whence they
may hear their menfolk bless the Almighty in strident tones that 'Thou
hast not made me a woman.'"
[829] Drach, op. cit., II. 335, 336, quoting Talmud, treatise Meghilla
folio 23 verso, treatise Berachoth folio 21 verso, treatise Sanhedrim
folio 2 recto, Maimonides chap. viii. art 6; Schulchan Arukh, etc.
[830] In this connexion see article on "Jesus" in the _Jewish
Encyclopaedia_, where the reader is referred to the work of O. Holtzmann
(_War Jesus Ekstattker_?), who "agrees that there must have been
abnormal mental processes involved in the utterances and behaviour of
Jesus."
[831] _Jewish World_ for December 22. 1920.
[832] Exod. i 10.
[833] Sura v. 60 (Everyman's Library edition, p. 493).
[834] Reinhardt Dozy, _Spanish Islam_ (Eng. trans.), p. 65
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