Judaism - Customs and practices - Early works to 1800
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The ceremonies of the present Jews being a short and succinct account of the meats that are clean and unclean to them. Their manner of killing. Their praying at synagogue, and at home. Their Washing and Bathing themselves. Their Marriage Ceremonies. Divorce. Precepts of the Women. Of Circumcision. Their Proselites. Synagogues. Schools. Learning. Contracts. Witnesses. Oaths. Vows. Sickness. Death. Burial. Mourning. Prayers for the Dead. Belief of Resurrection. Paradise. Purgatory. Hell. Of their Priests and Rabbins. Their manner of keeping the Sabbath. Passover. The Tabernacles. And all others their Feasts and Fasts. To which are added, the thirteen articles of their faith, and an Account of the several Sects, of the Jews, the Phariseans, Sadduceans, and Esseniens; the Samaritans, Caraites, and Rabbinists,.
Date: 1728- E-books
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The book of religion, ceremonies, and prayers; of the Jews, as practised in their synagogues and families On all Occasions: On their Sabbath and other Holy-Days Throughout the Year. To which is added, A Preface shewing the Intent of the Whole. The Contents, and an Index, with the Hebrew Title of each Prayer made English; with many Remarkable Observations and Relations of the Rabbies: All which are what the Modern Jews Religiously observe. Translated immediately from the Hebrew, by Gamaliel ben Pedahzur, Gent
Gamaliel ben PedahzurDate: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- E-books
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The history of the present Jews throughout the world . Being an ample tho succinct account of their customs, ceremonies, and manner of living, at this time. Translated from the Italian, written by Leo Modena, a Venetian Rabbi To which are subjoin'd two supplements, one concerning the Samaritans the other of the sect of the Carraites, from the French of Father Simon, with his Explanatory Notes. By Simon Ockley, Vicar of Swavesey in Cambridgeshire.
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.Date: 1711- E-books
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Miscellaneous discourses relating to the traditions and usages of the scribes and pharisees in our blessed saviour Jesus Christ's time. In two volumes. The first, Containing, I. A Discourse of the Nature, Authority and Usefulness of the Misna. II. Table and Contents of all the Titles of the Misna. III. A Discourse of the Recital of the Shema, Phylacteries, and Schedules of Gates and Door-Posts. IV. Texts relating to the religious Observation of one Day in seven. With Annotations. The second, Containing, Shabbath. A Title of the Misna concerning the Sabbath. Eruvin. A Title of the Misna, concerning the Mixtures practised by the Jews in Jesus Christ's Time, to strengthen the Observation of the Sabbath. In Hebrew and English. With Annotations. By W. Wotton, D.D
Wotton, William, 1666-1727.Date: 1718