item: #1 of 14 id: 11701 author: Kent, Charles Foster title: The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great date: None words: 133016 flesch: 73 summary: [Sidenote: Jonah 4:6-11] And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head. In early Israel there were many men and women famous for their ability to give wise counsel. keywords: able; account; acts; afraid; age; aim; alexander; alexandria; altar; ancient; anger; answer; antigonus; antiochus; antipater; antony; area; aristobulus; army; asia; attack; attitude; augustus; authority; b.c; babylon; babylonian; battle; bear; beasts; beginning; belief; ben; besieged; best; bib; blood; body; bones; book; break; breath; broad; brothers; caesar; calamity; camp; capital; captivity; cause; centuries; century; ceremonial; certain; chambers; chapters; character; characteristic; charge; chief; children; christian; chronicler; citadel; cities; city; civil; clear; close; collection; coming; command; common; community; complete; conception; conclusion; conditions; conquered; conquest; contemporary; contents; continued; control; counsel; country; countrymen; courage; court; covenant; cubits; current; customs; cut; cyrus; d.b; daniel; darius; darkness; date; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; deep; demetrius; descendants; destruction; development; devoted; devotion; different; dispersion; distant; divine; doors; doubtless; drink; dust; dwell; earlier; early; earth; east; eastern; egypt; elders; elephantine; empire; end; enemy; entire; entrance; epiphanes; essenes; ethical; events; everlasting; evidence; evil; example; exiles; exilic; experiences; eyes; ezekiel; ezra; face; fact; faithful; fall; family; famous; fast; fathers; favor; fear; feet; fellow; fifth; final; fire; flesh; foes; followers; following; food; forces; foreign; foreigners; form; foundations; fourth; free; friends; future; gain; galilee; garments; gate; general; gifts; glory; god; gods; gold; good; governor; great; greater; greek; ground; guard; haggai; half; hand; hastings; hath; hatred; head; heart; heathen; heaven; hebrew; height; hellenic; hellenism; help; herod; high; hill; historical; history; hold; holy; home; honor; hopes; horsemen; hosts; house; human; hyrcanus; ideals; iii; immortality; important; individual; influence; inhabitants; inner; inspired; institutions; isa; isaiah; israel; israelites; jacob; jehovah; jeremiah; jerusalem; jerusalem temple; jesus; jewish; jews; job; joel; john; jonah; jonathan; jordan; jos; josephus; joshua; joy; judaism; judas; judean; judgment; justice; king; kingdom; kingly; kinsmen; knowledge; known; land; large; later; law; laws; leaders; leave; left; length; levites; life; light; like; literary; literature; little; lived; living; long; lord; love; loyalty; maccabean; maccabees; majority; making; man; mariamne; marriage; master; mattathias; meaning; means; mediterranean; members; men; mercy; message; messianic; methods; midst; mighty; military; mind; modern; money; month; moral; mother; mount; mountains; multitude; national; nations; natural; nature; near; nehemiah; new; nicanor; nobles; north; northern; number; o.t; object; offerings; old; onias; open; opportunity; opposite; oracle; order; original; palestine; party; pass; past; people; period; persecutions; persian; personal; pharisees; picture; place; plain; point; policy; political; pompey; poor; popular; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; practical; prepared; presence; present; priesthood; priestly; priests; princes; principles; probable; problem; promise; prophecies; prophecy; prophet; prophetic; prosperity; proverbs; province; psalms; psalter; ptolemy; public; purpose; questions; race; real; reason; rebuilding; records; references; regard; reign; religion; religious; research; resources; respect; rest; restoration; result; return; rich; righteousness; ritual; river; roman; rome; royal; ruins; rule; rulers; sabbath; sacred; sacrifice; sadducees; saith jehovah; samaria; sanballat; sanctuary; satan; scattered; scribe; scriptures; sea; second; section; sense; series; servant; service; seventh; sidenote; sides; siege; significance; silver; similar; simon; sin; sins; sira; situation; slew; small; social; soldiers; solomon; son; sons; soul; south; southern; special; speeches; spirit; stand; state; stone; strength; strong; struggle; subjects; suffering; sun; support; sword; syrian; task; teachers; teachings; temple; temple service; territory; testament; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; title; tobiah; tradition; training; translation; true; trust; truth; type; valley; value; version; victories; victory; view; vii; visions; voice; walk; wall; war; way; ways; wealth; west; western; wicked; wide; wife; wine; wisdom; wise; wives; women; words; work; world; writings; year; young; zechariah; zerubbabel; zion cache: 11701.txt plain text: 11701.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 14368 author: None title: Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala date: None words: 149664 flesch: 81 summary: The Israelites relished any flavor they fancied in the manna except the flavor of these five things (mentioned in Num. xi. 59):--Cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. * * * Said Rabbi Eleazer, the great, It is commanded 'thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all that is loved by thee.' keywords: aaron; abaii; able; abraham; account; act; adam; age; akiva; alexander; altar; angels; anger; animal; answer; appearance; ark; arms; ashmedai; atonement; avodah; avoth; babylon; bad; bar; bathra; bava; bear; beasts; bed; beginning; behalf; behold; ben; benefit; berachoth; bereshith; best; better; bible; birth; blessed; blessing; blind; blood; body; bones; book; boy; bread; broken; brother; cases; cast; cause; cave; certain; chaggigah; change; chap; charity; children; chullin; city; clean; close; col; college; cols; come; coming; command; committed; condition; congregation; country; course; court; covenant; creation; creator; criminal; cup; custom; d'rab; daily; daughter; david; day; days; dead; death; decree; deeds; demons; depart; destruction; deut; didst; die; different; disciples; distance; divine; dog; door; dost; drink; dry; dust; duty; dwell; early; earth; eating; egypt; egyptians; eiruvin; elazar; eleazer; eliezer; elijah; elishah; ells; emperor; enemy; enter; esau; eternal; eve; evening; evil; example; existence; exod; eyes; ezek; face; fact; fall; family; far; father; favor; fear; feast; feet; fellow; female; festival; field; fifth; finger; fire; fish; flesh; fol; following; food; form; fox; free; friend; fruit; future; gamliel; garden; garment; gates; gehenna; gematria; gen; general; generations; gentile; gittin; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; good; grave; great; greater; ground; guilty; hair; half; hands; happy; hashanah; head; heart; heaven; hebrew; hell; help; high; hillel; hold; holy; home; honor; hour; house; human; hunna; husband; ibid; idols; ignorant; iii; instance; intended; isa; isaac; isaiah; ishmael; island; israel; israelites; jacob; jerusalem; jewish; jews; job; joseph; joshua; journey; joy; judah; judge; judgment; justice; kama; kethuboth; kiddushin; kind; king; kitzur; knowledge; known; labor; land; large; law; laws; learning; leave; left; letters; lev; levi; levites; life; like; lion; lips; little; living; long; look; lord; lord god; lost; love; man; manner; married; master; meal; meaning; means; measures; meat; meggillah; meir; members; memory; men; mercy; merit; messiah; metzia; midrash; mighty; miles; mind; ministering; mish; mishna; money; months; moon; morning; morrow; moses; mother; mount; mountain; mouth; myriads; names; nathan; nations; nature; near; neck; need; neglect; neighbor; new; night; noah; number; occasion; offering; oil; old; old man; open; order; original; owner; p'sachim; paradise; particular; party; pass; pay; penitence; people; period; person; pharaoh; phylacteries; pieces; pious; place; plead; point; poor; portion; possession; poverty; power; praise; prayer; precepts; precious; prepared; presence; present; priest; promised; proof; property; prophet; proselyte; proud; prov; public; punishment; pupil; purpose; question; rabbah; rabbi; rabbi akiva; rabbi eliezer; rabbi meir; rabbi shimon; rabbi yehudah; rabbi yochanan; rabbi yossi; rabbon; rain; rashi; rav; rava; ready; reason; reference; rejoice; repeat; repentance; reply; required; respect; rest; return; reward; rich; righteous; ring; rise; river; rome; room; rosh; rule; sabbath; sacrifice; sages; said; saith; sake; salt; sam; samuel; sanhedrin; saw; saying; school; scripture; sea; seat; second; secret; sense; serpent; servant; service; set; seventh; shadow; shechinah; shimon; shoes; sick; sign; silence; silver; sin; sinai; single; sins; skin; slave; sleep; small; solomon; son; song; sons; soteh; soul; sound; spirit; stand; standing; state; step; stone; story; strength; strong; study; subject; succah; suffering; sum; sun; sword; synagogue; taanith; tabernacles; taking; talmud; targum; tarphon; teacher; temple; term; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; tis; tongue; town; tradition; tree; trouble; true; truth; unclean; universe; unto; usual; value; verse; vii; viii; viz; voice; walk; walls; water; way; ways; week; west; wheat; white; wicked; wife; wilderness; wilt; wind; wine; wisdom; wise; witnesses; woe; woman; wood; words; work; world; worship; worth; xii; xiv; xix; xxiii; xxvi; xxx; yalkut; years; yehoshua; yehudah; yevamoth; yochanan; yoma; yossi; young; zachariah; zarah; zech; zouzim cache: 14368.txt plain text: 14368.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 14764 author: Snoek, Johan M. title: The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule date: None words: 133858 flesch: 63 summary: May one not say that German Jews have, up till now, been much attached to their country; that they have added to its distinction in the field of science, art and literature. The greatest wave of deportations of German Jews and Christians of Jewish origin to Poland has been going on since the middle of October. keywords: able; account; action; active; activities; acts; address; adopted; affairs; alliance; allied; america; amsterdam; annihilation; answer; anti; appeal; approach; april; archbishop; archives; article; aryan; assembly; asylum; athens; atrocities; attack; attempt; attention; attitude; august; austria; authorities; authority; aware; baptist; basis; beginning; behalf; beings; belgium; bell; bereczky; berlin; best; bible; bishop; blood; bodies; body; boegner; book; borders; brethren; britain; british; brothers; budapest; bulgarian church; bulletin; buskes; camps; canterbury; cards; case; catholic church; catholics; censorship; central; centuries; century; certain; chairman; chapter; character; chichester; chief; children; christian anti; christian church; christian conscience; christian faith; christian people; christian world; christianity; christians; church; church assembly; church council; church leaders; church services; churches; circles; circular; circumstances; cit; citizens; claim; clear; clergy; close; collection; commandment; committee; common; communities; community; compassion; concentration; concern; concerned; conclusion; conditions; conference; confessing; congregations; congress; conscience; consequences; contents; continued; contrary; conversion; conviction; convinced; copenhagen; copy; council; countries; country; courage; course; cross; cruelty; daily; damaskinos; damgaard; danger; danish; danish jews; das; dated; day; days; death; december; decision; declaration; declared; decree; deeds; deep; delegates; demands; denial; denmark; department; deportation; des; desire; destiny; destruction; determined; die; different; difficult; director; discrimination; distress; divine; doctrine; documents; doubt; dutch; dutch church; duty; e.p.d; early; earth; eastern; ecclesiastical; economic; ecumenical; effect; effective; efforts; end; enemies; england; english; entire; episcopal church; escape; eternal; europe; european; european jews; evangelical church; events; evil; example; excellency; exception; executive; existence; express; expression; extent; extermination; eyes; face; fact; factors; faith; faithful; families; fate; father; fear; february; federal; federal council; federation; feelings; fellow; final; financial; following; food; forces; foreign; foreign jews; france; free church; freedom; french; french jews; freudenberg; friedman; friendly; fuglsang; fur; future; general; geneva; german; german christians; german church; german jews; german people; god; good; gospel; government; great; greater; greece; greek; greek jews; grounds; group; guard; guilt; hand; hate; hatred; head; heart; hebrew; help; het; high; highest; hilberg; historical; history; hitler; holland; holy; home; honour; hooft; hope; horror; house; human; humanity; hungarian; hungarian jews; hungary; ibid; ideology; immediate; important; independent; indignation; individual; influence; information; informed; inhuman; injustice; innocent; instance; intercession; international; intervention; interview; introduction; involved; ireland; israel; issues; january; jerusalem; jesus; jewish; jewish affairs; jewish brethren; jewish children; jewish community; jewish congress; jewish leaders; jewish origin; jewish people; jewish population; jewish problem; jewish question; jewish race; jewish refugees; jewry; jews; judaism; judge; judgment; juifs; july; june; justice; karl; kind; king; kirche; knowledge; known; labour; large; later; law; laws; leading; leave; left; legal; les; letter; levai; life; little; lives; living; local; london; long; longer; lord; love; ludwig; lutheran church; majesty; majority; mankind; march; marr; marriages; mass; material; matter; means; measures; meeting; members; membership; memorandum; mercy; message; methodist church; metropolitan; mind; minister; ministry; minority; mixed; modern; moral; moved; movement; national; national church; nationality; nations; nature; nazi; nazism; necessary; need; neighbour; netherlands; neutral; new; new church; niemoeller; non; norway; norwegian; norwegian church; note; november; number; obedience; occupation; occupied; october; offer; office; official; old; open; operation; opinion; order; organizations; organized; orthodox church; outside; oxford; page; parents; paris; parliament; particular; party; pastoral; pastors; patriarch; paul; period; persecuted; persecution; personal; persons; place; point; poland; policy; polish; political; population; position; possible; power; practical; prayer; prepared; presbyterian church; present; president; press; pressure; prime; principles; problem; prof; profound; promise; propaganda; protection; protest; protestant; protestant churches; provisional; provisional church; public; pulpits; purpose; question; rabbi; race; racial; racialism; ravasz; reason; recent; record; recorded; reformed church; refugees; regard; regime; reich; relations; relationship; relief; religion; religious; reply; reports; representatives; request; rescue; resistance; resolution; respect; responsibility; responsible; result; return; rev; riegner; right; roman; rumania; russia; safran; said; salonika; salvation; schweiz; scotland; second; secretary; section; security; self; semitic; semitism; sense; september; service; session; share; shows; silence; silent; similar; situation; slovakia; small; social; socialist; society; sofia; solemn; sorrow; sources; special; speech; spirit; spiritual; spite; stand; state; statement; stephan; steps; stoecker; stop; strength; strong; struggle; study; subject; suffering; summer; sunday; support; sweden; swedish church; swiss; switzerland; sympathy; synod; taking; task; teaching; terms; terrible; territories; terror; testament; text; theological; things; thought; thousands; time; total; touw; treatment; true; truth; u.s.a; und; understanding; union; united; university; urge; values; vashem; vast; victims; view; violence; visser; voice; vol; von; war; warning; way; weeks; witness; women; words; work; world; world council; world jewish; world war; yad; yahil; year; york; young; youth; yugoslavia; zone; zurich cache: 14764.txt plain text: 14764.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 15173 author: Trager, Hannah title: Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago date: None words: 21182 flesch: 77 summary: After going in the morning to hear the Chazan again, and coming home and enjoying the Hamantaschen and other good things, then begins the pleasure and excitement of sending Shalach-manoth to friends, acquaintances, and chiefly to the poor, and even to enemies if you have any. Benjamin was like many other boys of 13, not very clever, but blessed with a good deal of common sense. keywords: afternoon; age; aged; away; bad; baked; baking; barnett; beautiful; benjamin; best; blessing; book; boys; bride; bridegroom; cakes; charity; children; clean; cold; community; course; customs; day; days; deal; dear; duty; elder; england; europe; evening; fact; family; father; food; friday; friends; fun; girls; god; good; great; hair; hands; happy; hard; hasty; head; help; holy; home; hot; hours; house; husband; interested; israel; jacob; jerusalem; jewish; jews; lady; large; law; letter; life; like; little; living; london; long; look; looking; love; man; marriage; matter; matzos; meal; men; minds; money; morning; mother; neighbours; new; old; oven; palestine; parents; passover; people; poor; present; purim; rabbi; reading; reason; religious; right; room; sabbath; scholars; school; shule; small; special; spirit; study; synagogue; table; things; thought; time; tins; torah; true; tsitsith; turn; water; way; weather; wedding; week; wife; wine; women; work; years; young cache: 15173.txt plain text: 15173.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 2030 author: King, L. W. (Leonard William) title: Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition date: None words: 65295 flesch: 64 summary: I suggested the restoration _ki-rib �(a-ma-mi)_, in the midst of heaven, as possible, since the traces of the first sign in the last word of the line seemed to be those of the Neo-Babylonian form of _�a_. Other Hittite-Aramaean and Phoenician monuments, as yet undocumented with literary records, exhibit a strange but not unpleasing mixture of foreign _motifs_, such as we see on the stele from Amrith(1) in the inland district of Arvad. keywords: account; action; ages; ancient; animals; antediluvian; antiquity; anu; apparent; archaeological; assyrian; b.c; babylonian; babylonian creation; babylonian version; beginning; berossus; biblical; birds; birth; boat; body; book; british; building; case; century; certain; character; chief; cities; city; civilization; clear; close; column; combination; comparison; complete; composition; concerned; conclusion; connexion; contact; contents; correspondence; country; course; creation; creation myth; creator; creatures; cult; current; date; dawn; day; days; decision; deep; deities; deity; deluge; deluge story; description; desert; destruction; detailed; details; development; different; direct; discussion; district; divine; documents; doubt; dragon; dream; dynastic; dynasties; dynasty; eanna; earlier; earliest; early; early sumerian; earth; east; eastern; effect; egyptian; elements; employment; enki; enlil; epic; equivalent; erech; eridu; escape; euphrates; evidence; example; existence; explanation; ezekiel; fact; familiar; famous; far; father; features; field; fifth; figure; find; flood; following; foreign; form; foundation; fourth; fragment; future; general; genesis; gilgamesh; god; goddess; gods; great; great gods; greek; ground; gudea; half; hand; head; heaven; hebrew; hebrew tradition; hebrew version; hero; high; historical; history; hitherto; house; human; idea; iii; immortality; important; incantation; independent; influence; inscriptions; interesting; interpretation; introduction; ishtar; jastrow; king; kingdom; kish; knowledge; known; lady; land; later; lay; lecture; left; legend; length; life; light; like; lines; list; literary; literature; little; local; long; lord; lower; magical; main; man; manetho; mankind; marduk; material; meaning; means; men; mesopotamia; method; missing; mother; mountain; museum; myth; mythical; names; napishtim; narrative; national; native; natural; near; need; neo; new; new sumerian; nile; ninkharsagga; nintu; nippur; noah; north; number; object; obvious; occurrence; old; opening; order; origin; original; osiris; palermo; palestine; parallel; particular; passage; past; patesi; people; period; persian; picture; place; poebel; poem; point; political; portions; possible; predynastic; prehistoric; presence; present; priest; primaeval; primitive; principal; probable; problem; process; professor; proof; purpose; question; race; rain; reading; reason; recent; recognized; recorded; records; reed; reference; regard; relation; religion; religious; remains; remote; rendering; resemblance; result; rise; river; royal; rulers; sacrifice; scene; sea; second; section; semitic; semitic version; separate; sequence; series; setting; ship; shuruppak; sign; significance; similar; single; sir; site; sixth; small; soc; soil; son; soul; sources; south; southern; speech; stele; stories; story; stream; striking; study; subject; subsequent; suggested; suggestion; sumerian; sumerian creation; sumerian dynastic; sumerian myth; sumerian text; sumerian tradition; sumerian version; summary; sun; support; survival; system; tablet; temple; term; text; theory; tiamat; tigris; time; title; traces; tradition; true; upper; use; valley; variant; versions; vessel; view; vision; vol; wall; warning; waters; way; west; words; work; world; writing; xxxvi; years; ziusudu cache: 2030.txt plain text: 2030.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 21905 author: Reggio, Isaac Samuel title: A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth date: None words: 24906 flesch: 47 summary: The scope of Judaism is, then, the propagation among men of the _religious idea_, and this comprises the doctrines revealed respecting the Deity and respecting man, in consequence of which the latter will be able to attain his true goal. Of all that surrounds him, nothing is of any value in his eyes but that which may contribute to the accomplishment of the Divine design; in all passing events he sees but as many dispositions of Providence calculated to direct men to the path in which they are called to walk; the very thoughts which cross his mind, and the wishes which form themselves in his heart, he regards them not as the productions of his own soul, but as emanations from the Spirit of God which dwells in him, and pervades all his being. keywords: abraham; absolute; act; actions; acts; age; appetites; attainment; author; beings; best; body; cause; certain; chapter; character; charity; circumstances; commandment; complete; condition; consequence; contrary; course; covenant; creator; creatures; day; decalogue; degree; desires; destination; development; dictates; different; direct; divine; doctrines; doubt; duties; duty; earth; earthly; education; effect; end; enjoyment; error; essence; eternal; events; evil; excellence; exercise; existence; fact; faculties; faith; family; fear; feeling; fellow; force; form; free; fundamental; future; general; goal; god; good; great; guide; hand; happiness; heart; high; holy; human; humanity; idea; image; immortal; importance; individual; infinite; influence; instruction; intellect; intellectual; intelligence; internal; israel; judaism; justice; knowledge; known; law; laws; life; long; love; man; manifest; mankind; material; means; men; mercy; mind; mission; moral; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; noblest; notions; object; order; origin; particular; parts; people; perfection; physical; place; plan; point; power; practice; precepts; present; preservation; principal; principle; providence; pure; rational; reason; relations; religion; religious; respect; revealed; revelation; right; sacred; said; sanctification; self; sense; short; social; society; soul; source; special; spiritual; state; subject; sublime; supreme; system; tendency; things; time; translator; true; truth; ultimate; universal; universe; virtue; way; wisdom; wise; word; work; worship cache: 21905.txt plain text: 21905.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 26094 author: A. L. O. E. title: Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History date: None words: 70213 flesch: 74 summary: And much Zarah wept for her father--though in remembering him a deep spring of joy mingled with her sorrow. Zarah leant against the wall, and raised her clasped hands towards the glimpse of sky seen between those dark bars. keywords: abishai; abner; abraham; account; aged; alarm; altar; anna; answer; antiochus; apartment; apostate; arms; asmonean; athenian; attack; attendant; band; battle; bear; beauty; beloved; bethsura; better; blessed; blessing; blood; body; bosom; bowed; brethren; bright; brothers; brow; burial; burst; calm; camp; captive; care; cast; cause; chapter; chief; child; children; city; clasped; close; cold; coming; command; conflict; conscience; countenance; country; courage; course; courtier; cry; danger; dark; darkness; daughter; david; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; die; distance; door; doubt; dream; dust; dwelling; dying; early; earth; earthly; eleazar; enemy; epiphanes; ere; escape; excitement; existence; expression; eyes; face; faint; fair; faith; faithful; fall; false; family; far; fate; father; fear; feast; features; feet; fierce; find; flight; floor; flowers; fly; foes; following; foot; force; form; free; freedom; friends; garments; gaze; gentile; gesture; giorgias; girl; glorious; glory; god; gold; good; grandmother; grave; great; greek; grief; ground; guards; hadassah; half; hand; happiness; hath; head; heart; heathen; heaven; heavy; hebrew; heroes; high; hill; history; hold; holy; home; honour; hope; hosts; hour; house; human; hut; idol; interest; isa; israel; jar; jasher; jerusalem; joab; journey; joy; judaea; judas; judas maccabeus; king; kinsman; lady; land; large; law; lay; leader; leave; left; life; like; lion; lips; litter; little; lives; living; long; longer; look; lord; love; lycidas; lysimachus; maccabeus; maiden; man; marble; martyrs; mattathias; means; memory; men; mercy; messiah; mighty; mind; misery; modin; moment; morning; mother; mountains; murmured; nations; nature; nay; near; new; nicanor; night; noble; object; old; open; painful; pale; parent; passover; past; path; people; peril; persecution; place; point; pollux; poor; position; power; powerful; prayer; precious; presence; present; prince; prisoner; protection; question; race; rachel; regard; relative; religion; reply; rest; retreat; return; rival; roof; room; rose; sacrifice; safety; salathiel; save; scene; sea; secret; self; sense; servant; set; shadow; shame; silence; silent; silver; simon; simple; sky; sleep; small; smile; soldiers; solomona; son; sons; sorrow; soul; sound; space; spirit; spot; spring; step; stern; stranger; strength; strong; struggle; subject; sudden; suffering; sun; sword; syrian; temple; tender; terrible; terror; thankful; thee; things; thought; thrilling; tidings; time; tone; trembling; trial; triumph; true; trust; truth; tyrant; uttered; veil; victory; voice; wall; warriors; water; way; weary; white; widow; wild; woman; words; work; world; worn; worship; wounded; years; young; youth; zarah; zion cache: 26094.txt plain text: 26094.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 2849 author: Josephus, Flavius title: Against Apion date: None words: 41585 flesch: 52 summary: And now, in the first place, I cannot but greatly wonder at those men, who suppose that we must attend to none but Grecians, when we are inquiring about the most ancient facts, and must inform ourselves of their truth from them only, while we must not believe ourselves nor other men; for I am convinced that the very reverse is the truth of the case. As for ourselves, therefore, we neither inhabit a maritime country, nor do we delight in merchandise, nor in such a mixture with other men as arises from it; but the cities we dwell in are remote from the sea, and having a fruitful country for our habitation, we take pains in cultivating that only. keywords: able; account; actions; affairs; alexander; alexandria; amenophis; ancient; animals; antiochus; antiquities; antiquity; apion; army; assistance; authors; babylon; battle; best; better; birth; body; books; brother; building; care; case; certain; cheremon; children; cities; city; common; conduct; contrary; country; customs; cyrus; days; death; desert; desire; desirous; divine; earth; egypt; egyptians; endeavor; enemies; esteem; ethiopia; evident; excellent; fight; following; force; forefathers; foreigners; general; god; gods; good; government; great; greatest; grecians; greeks; guilty; hands; hath; hecateus; herodotus; high; hirom; histories; history; ill; inhabitants; jerusalem; jewish; jews; josephus; judea; king; kingdom; known; land; large; laws; learned; leave; legislator; leprous; lies; life; like; little; living; long; man; manetho; mankind; manner; means; men; mention; mind; money; months; moses; multitude; nation; nature; nay; near; need; new; notions; number; observation; occasion; old; opinion; order; original; particular; parts; people; person; philosophy; phoenicians; piety; place; plain; power; present; priests; principal; ptolemy; public; purpose; reason; records; regard; reign; religion; reproaches; rest; romans; sacred; sacrifices; sea; second; sect; set; shepherds; slew; solomon; son; sort; syria; temple; testimony; things; thought; time; transactions; true; truth; use; war; way; wife; witness; wives; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; writers; writings; years cache: 2849.txt plain text: 2849.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 38327 author: Evelyn, John title: The History of Sabatai Sevi, the Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews date: None words: 15493 flesch: 70 summary: No Invitation was now made in _Smyrna_ by the _Iewes_, nor Marriage, or Circumcision solemnized, where _Sabatai_ was not present, accompanyed with a multitude of his Followers, and the Streets cover'd with Carpits, or fine Cloath for him to tread on; but the Humility of this _ In this manner things ran to a strange height of madness amongst the _Jews_ at _Smyrna_, where appear'd such pageantry of greatness, that no Comedy could equal the mock-shews they represented, and though none durst openly profess any scruple, or doubt of this common received belief, yet for confirmation of the _Jews_ in their Faith, and astonishment of the _Gentiles_, it was judged no less than necessary that _Sabatai_ should shew some miracles, whereby to evince to all the World that he was the true _Messiah_: and as the present occasion seemed to require an evidence infallible of this truth, so it was daily expected by the vulgar, with an impatience sutable to humors disposed to Noveltie; who out of every action and motion of their Prophet began to fancy something extraordinary and supernatural. keywords: account; adrianople; andrews; angeles; antient; appearance; authority; belief; ben; brethren; cadi; california; certain; che; chocham; christian; city; clark; coming; common; constantinople; course; day; days; design; disciples; doctrine; elias; empire; england; english; enthusiasts; ephraim; evelyn; expectation; eyes; faith; families; famous; fear; feet; gaza; general; god; good; grand; great; greatness; hand; hast; hath; head; hearts; history; holy; hopes; iewes; impostor; interest; introduction; israel; jerusalem; jewish; jews; john; joseph; journey; joy; king; kingdome; known; late; law; legates; letter; library; life; like; long; lord; los; man; manner; matters; memorial; men; messiah; miracles; modern; monarchy; moneth; money; nathan; nation; nature; near; necessary; nehemiah; new; news; occasion; onely; order; page; parts; people; person; place; poor; prayers; present; pretended; prophesies; prophet; psalm; reader; return; rycaut; sabatai; sabatai sevi; sabbath; samuel; sea; service; sevi; signior; smyrna; society; son; spirit; strange; synagogue; things; thomas; thought; thy; time; title; trade; true; truth; turkish; turks; university; way; wife; william; words; work; world; year cache: 38327.txt plain text: 38327.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 40671 author: Henry, H. A. (Henry Abraham) title: Synopsis of Jewish History From the Return of the Jews from the Babylonish Captivity, to the Days of Herod the Great date: None words: 40897 flesch: 60 summary: This practice was first carried out in the open streets, (as already noticed in the former Chapter,) or in the public market places, as found most convenient, until such time when arrangements could be made for the establishment of Schools and Synagogues suitable for such purposes. As soon as Ezra had collected about him a large body of people, he issued a proclamation for a general fast and days of thanksgiving, to implore the blessing and protection of God. keywords: account; affairs; ages; alexander; almighty; altar; ancient; antigonus; antiochus; antipater; aristobulus; army; assistance; authority; babylon; battle; bible; body; book; breast; brethren; brother; captivity; cause; celebrated; chapter; children; circumstance; city; class; commission; conduct; country; court; cruel; daily; days; dead; death; demetrius; determined; devoted; devotion; different; divine; duties; egypt; elders; emperor; enemies; enemy; esther; evening; example; ezra; family; father; favor; feast; festivals; fifth; following; form; fourth; future; gates; gemara; general; glory; god; gold; good; government; governor; great; hands; happy; head; heathen; hebrew; herod; high; history; holy; holy temple; honor; house; hyrcanus; influence; israel; israelites; jerusalem; jewish; jews; jonathan; judas; judea; king; kingdom; known; land; language; large; law; laws; learned; levites; life; little; long; lord; loss; love; lunar; maccabees; man; manner; mariamne; master; mattathias; means; men; mind; mishna; months; mordecai; moses; mother; mount; nation; nehemiah; new; noble; number; occasion; offering; office; old; opinion; oral; order; original; parties; party; pentateuch; people; period; persia; persons; pharisees; piety; pious; place; poor; portion; possession; posterity; power; prayer; present; president; priest; priesthood; private; prophets; ptolemy; public; punishment; purpose; queen; rabbi; rabbins; regular; religion; religious; result; return; romans; sabbath; sacred; sacrifices; said; samaritans; sanhedrin; sar; schools; second; sect; section; service; set; seventh; simon; sixth; sons; spirit; state; subject; success; synagogues; syria; talmud; temple; things; thou; thumeem; time; treats; true; tyrant; ureem; walls; war; way; wicked; work; world; worship; written; years; zeal; zealous cache: 40671.txt plain text: 40671.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 6971 author: Abrahams, Israel title: Judaism date: None words: 22254 flesch: 65 summary: But the whole book breathes so nationalistic a spirit, so uncompromising a belief that the enemy of Israel must be the enemy of God, that it has become difficult for modern Judaism to retain any affection for it. It is, however, clear that modern Judaism now realises the mistake made by the Reformers of the mid-nineteenth century. keywords: accepted; ages; ancient; articles; aspect; associated; atonement; attempt; attitude; authority; belief; better; bible; body; book; centuries; century; certain; change; chapter; character; children; christian; christianity; claim; code; commandments; community; conception; conduct; consciousness; covenant; creed; daily; david; day; days; dead; death; desire; development; divine; doctrine; doubt; early; earth; end; events; evil; existence; experience; expression; fact; faith; feast; festival; form; future; general; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; hebrew; history; hold; holy; hope; house; human; idea; iii; immortality; inward; islam; israel; jerusalem; jewish; jews; joseph; joy; judaism; judgment; knowledge; kohler; large; later; law; laws; legacy; life; literature; london; long; lord; love; loving; maimonides; man; meaning; means; mediaeval; men; messiah; messianic; middle; mission; modern; modern judaism; moral; morality; moses; mysticism; national; nature; necessary; new; opinion; orthodox; passage; passover; past; people; personal; place; point; possible; power; practical; prayer; present; principles; question; rabbinic; rabbis; real; reason; religion; religious; rest; resurrection; return; right; righteousness; rite; ritual; roman; sabbath; second; sense; service; sin; soul; spiritual; state; synagogue; system; temple; tendency; terms; thee; theology; theory; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tradition; true; truth; unity; use; view; viii; way; work; world; year; zionism cache: 6971.txt plain text: 6971.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 7482 author: Landman, Isaac title: Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) date: None words: 66380 flesch: 77 summary: O Lord God, correct me, but in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou bring me to nothing. The multitude of many peoples That roar like the roaring of the seas! keywords: advice; ahaz; ahikam; altar; amaziah; amos; anathoth; ancient; answer; armies; arms; army; assembly; assyria; attack; attention; babylon; babylonia; baruch; bear; beautiful; bed; beloved; bethel; better; blood; book; boy; business; capital; care; cause; certain; change; chapter; children; cities; city; clear; coming; command; commandments; common; conditions; countries; country; course; court; covenant; crowd; cry; damascus; danger; david; day; days; dead; death; deep; destruction; determined; different; doom; door; ears; earth; effect; egypt; eliakim; empire; end; enemy; entire; escape; ethiopian; evil; eyes; face; fact; fall; fallen; false; family; far; father; favor; fear; feet; festival; field; fighting; fire; following; forth; friend; friendship; fruit; future; gate; gedaliah; gemariah; glory; god; gods; gomer; good; great; ground; guard; hand; happy; hath; head; heart; help; hezekiah; high; hilkiah; history; holy; home; hope; hosea; hosts; house; idea; iii; inhabitants; isaiah; ishmael; israel; jehoiakim; jeremiah; jeroboam; jerusalem; jezreel; josiah; jotham; judah; judean; judge; justice; king; king josiah; kingdom; knowledge; land; later; law; leaders; leave; left; life; like; lips; little; live; living; long; looking; lord; lord god; love; man; manasseh; march; market; master; meant; melech; men; menahem; message; micah; midst; mighty; mind; moment; money; moral; morning; mother; nation; nebuchadrezzar; necho; new; news; night; nineveh; offerings; old; open; opportunity; order; palestine; party; pashhur; pay; pekah; people; people israel; pharaoh; pileser; place; plan; point; political; poor; power; practices; preaching; prepared; present; priest; princes; prophet; prosperity; purpose; rebellion; reforms; reign; religion; religious; remnant; reply; rest; return; rezin; riblah; rich; righteousness; room; royal; sacrifices; saith; saith god; samaria; sanctuaries; sanctuary; scroll; sennacherib; set; shallum; shaphan; siege; sins; situation; social; son; sons; sorrow; soul; south; speech; spirit; standing; state; story; strength; strong; successor; sycamore; tekoah; temple; terrible; thee; things; thinking; thou; thought; threatening; throne; thy; thy god; tiglath; time; traitor; tribute; true; trust; truth; unto; uzziah; vineyard; voice; walk; war; way; ways; wealth; wilderness; wine; woe; wonderful; words; work; world; worship; year; yoke; young; young king; zedekiah cache: 7482.txt plain text: 7482.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 8547 author: None title: Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers date: None words: 27289 flesch: 81 summary: , consists of a comparison of _Abot_ with the New Testament, pointing out the likenesses and differences. 13. Cf. _Shabbat_, 119a, and _ keywords: abot; abraham; akiba; aramaic; art; aspects; authorities; bacher; ben; berlin; bet; better; book; c.e; cause; century; chapter; commandments; commentary; consult; contemporary; crown; day; days; deeds; den; der; deut; die; disciples; divine; earth; edition; einleitung; eleazar; eliezer; encyclopedia; end; english; etc; ethics; evil; expression; fathers; fear; fellow; free; friedlander; friend; future; gamaliel; god; good; gorfinkle; great; hands; heart; heaven; hebrew; herford; high; hillel; history; hoffmann; holy; honor; house; i.e.; ibid; iii; inherit; introduction; israel; jerusalem; jewish; jews; jochanan; jose; joshua; judah; judaism; judge; judgment; knowledge; known; language; law; learning; life; london; lord; love; maimonides; man; master; means; meir; men; middle; mishnah; moses; nasi; natan; new; notes; num; number; old; order; page; people; pirke; place; pleased; portion; prayer; present; priest; prov; punishment; pupil; rabban; rabbi; rabbinic; reading; resh; reward; righteous; righteousness; sabbath; sages; sanhedrin; sayings; schechter; schurer; second; section; seq; service; shammai; simeon; sin; son; source; spirit; spruche; strack; studies; study; synagogue; talmud; taylor; teachers; temple; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; title; torah; tradition; translation; umlaut; und; understanding; vater; verse; vol; way; wicked; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; year; york; yud; zakkai cache: 8547.txt plain text: 8547.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 8548 author: None title: Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers date: None words: 9604 flesch: 77 summary: R. Eleazar ha-Mudai said, He who profanes things sacred, and despises the festivals, and puts his fellow-man to shame in public, and makes void the covenant of Abraham, our father, and makes the _Torah_ bear a meaning other than the right; (such a one) even though knowledge of the _Torah_ and good deeds be his, has no share in the world to come. R. Eleazar, the son of Azariah, said, Where there is no _Torah_, there are no manners; where there are no manners, there is no _Torah_: where there is no wisdom, there is no fear of God; where there is no fear of God, there is no wisdom: where there is no knowledge, there no understanding; where there is no understanding, there is no knowledge: where there is no meal, there is no _ keywords: abraham; art; chapter; crown; disciples; eleazar; end; evil; father; fear; god; good; hands; heaven; holy; honor; hour; inherit; israel; jose; joshua; judge; life; lord; love; man; men; old; people; place; pleased; portion; present; rabbi; reward; righteous; righteousness; sake; simeon; sin; son; spirit; study; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; torah; understanding; whoso; whosoever; wicked; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; year cache: 8548.txt plain text: 8548.txt