Volume 1

Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin.

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger

Date:: 1748

Credit: Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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44 ordain’d, that the Children of Ifrael fhallbereco- yer’d, by Tranfmigration, to a Fitnefs for partak- 44 ing of Eternal Life, make the like Ordinance for us likewife. For, what haft thou feen, that thou “ haft chofen the Seed of Abraham in Prefer- ^ ence to us all ? Then faid the Holy andBlefled ' 44 God, Have you done that which Abraham hath <4 done, who hath acknowledg’d me from his Child- ** hood, and, out of Love to me, went into the Fire of the Chaldeans /; you have feen9 thatlref- 44 cu’d him out of their Hands and from the Fiery- Furnace, fo that the Fire had no Power over him. Neverthelefs,* Ye have not believ’d in me, nor 44 hallowed my Name. Wherefore fpeak no more, 44 nor Good, nor Bad. ” This Account is inferted likewife in the Farafha Vejeze of the Great Jal- kut Rubeni. * Rabbi Aberbenel, in his Treatife Mackeveth ham- pnflmeh, f Lys, f4 The Tranfmigration of Souls ^ is ordain’d out of Mercy. For the Word Gilgul, 44 through the Gematria, is in Numeration equal to 44 Ghefed (i. e. Seventy 'Two). And in the Second Part of the Treatife Avodath hakkodeß jj it is faid, f^Thqu muft know, that this Work (of Tranfmu 44 gration) is a Mercy of God upon Ifrael, to the 44 End the Souls of Light may be made worthy of 44 the Stiprem Light; and, as our Rabbins of Blef- 44 fed Memory have faid, to the End all Ifrael may $c have Share in Eternal Life. * We fhall now entertain the Reader with a Series of Arguments which Rabbi Menajfe ben Ifrael hath drawn together from Holy Writ, in Defence of the Doflrine of Tranfmigratorn This he hath done in his Treatife Nißmath Chajim, in the Fourth Maa- * Pol. Col. f Foh 83, Col. 2. K Fo], 48, Col. y war9

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