Levi and Sarah, Or, The Jewish Lovers: A Polish TaleJ. Murray, 1830 - 346 pages |
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Levi and Sarah, Or, The Jewish Lovers: A Polish Tale Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz Affichage du livre entier - 1830 |
Levi and Sarah, Or, the Jewish Lovers: A Polish Tale Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz Aucun aperçu disponible - 2015 |
Levi and Sarah, Or, the Jewish Lovers: A Polish Tale Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz Aucun aperçu disponible - 2023 |
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Aaron Abraham accursed appeared become beloved Berditschew blessing blind books of Moses brethren Brody Cabala Cabalists Chaim Chassidim Cherem Christians commands Count Tenczyn cried curses daugh daughter David dear Levi dear Rachel dear Sarah doctrines Edmund elders exclaimed excommunication eyes Fadowicz father feelings folly Gemara give Gojim grief hand happy heart heaven Hebrew Hirsch holy honoured hope horses Isaac Israel Israelites Jankiel Jewess Jewish Jews kind king laws of Moses learned letter look Lord ment Mischna misery Moses Mendelssohn mother nation never Niemcewicz obstinacy passed persecution pickled cucumber Poland Polish Jews Polish language prejudices present rabbins Radziwilow receive religion replied sacred SARAH TO RACHEL says scarcely sect shew son of Ben soon soul spikenard sufferings Talmud tears temple of Solomon thou thought thousand tion took trouble venerable Warsaw whilst whole wisdom words write young Count
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Page 143 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Page 120 - We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, but now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 172 - And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia...
Page 172 - Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword, in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man, or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age : he gave them all into his hand.
Page 90 - Excommunication, as we have said, inflicted a civil death ; how far, at least in the milder form, it excluded from the synagogue, seems not quite clear. But no one, except his wife and children, might approach the moral leper — all others must avoid him the distance of a toise. If there be a dead body in his house, no one inters it; if a child be born, the father must circumcise it.
Page 180 - ... unclean spirits, who, during the night, fix themselves on the nails of his fingers. When he passes by a church and hears the sound of the organ or the singing, he must stop his ears lest such sounds should pollute his soul; and in this way he becomes persuaded, that whoever is not a Jew, is worse than a demon. In the same year he begins to learn the Talmud, and is, though a child, lectured on marriages and divorces, on the cleanness and uncleanness of females, and of the wars of animals. These...
Page 89 - ... denied him in his own ; the church would have opened its gates to receive him who was doomed to perpetual exile from the synagogue The sentence of excommunication was couched in the most fearful phrases. The delinquent was excommunicated, anathematized, accursed — by the book of the Law, by the ninety-three precepts, by the malediction of Joshua against Jericho, by that of Elisha against the children who mocked him, and so on, through all the terrific threatenings of the ancient Law and history....
Page 89 - The first process, usually, was the censure ; the name and the offence of the delinquent were read for four succeeding Sabbaths, during which he had time to make his peace with the congregation ; at the end of that period the solemn Niddui, or interdict, was pronounced, which for thirty days separated the criminal from the hopes and the privileges of Israel.
Page 91 - Hufhafil, and finally by the threefold elevated King of the seven thousand names ! May his race be rooted out like that of Korah ! May his soul depart from him under the struggles of misery and despair ; whilst the wrath of God is crushing, him...