The old paths, or the Talmud tested by Scripture / Being a comparison of the principles and doctrines of modern Judaism with the religion of Moses and the prophets

• Abarbanel, 124
• Aben Ezra, 123
• Abraham at the door of hell, 450
• Adam, 136
• Agadah, recognized in Jewish Prayer-book, 3
• Ahijah, the Shilonite, fable about, 352
• Almsgiving, Rabbinic, 302
  • merit of, 307
• Amhaaretz, meaning of the word, 458
  • disqualifications of, 459
  • may be robbed and slain with impunity, 461
  • lawful to kill, 6
• Amulets, virtues of, 183
• Angels carry up the sound of the horn at new year, 267
• Angels, of the waves, 197
• Angel, evil, 229
• Angels ministering, 164
• Apostates, to be killed, 36
• Arbah, Turim, 112
• Astrology, taught and practised, 175
• Atonement, day of, 279
  • itself an atonement, 279
  • repentance an, 279
  • a cock killed as an, 283
  • death an, 299
• Baptism necessary to a proselyte, 304
• Bar Kochav, 222
• Bechai, 142
• Behemoth, legend of, 128, &c.
• Bither, the city of, 216
• Cain, 138
• Catechism, Bavarian Jewish, 25
  • gives a false view of Judaism, 26
• Charity, Rabbinic, 112
• Charm, Rabbinic, for a bleeding of the nose, 192
  • for the bite of a mad dog, 193
  • for a storm at sea, 196
  • for the bite of a scorpion, 200
• Charms allowed on the Sabbath-day, 200
• Charm for bed time, 201
• Christianity, a Jewish religion, 1
• Christianity, the religion of the New Testament, 2
• Christians considered as idolaters, 419
  • not counted amongst the pious of the nations, 4
  • not in a state of salvation, 4
• Circumcision equivalent to all the commandments, 451
  • meritoriousness of, 450
• Cock, killing a cock as atonement, 283
• Commandments, 442; 162
• Cruelty, Rabbinic, 8, 99, 209
  • to women, 377
• Dead, Rabbinic mourning for, 428
  • prayers for the, 295
• Death, an atonement, 299
• Demons, asking counsel of, 203
• Deniers of the law, three classes of, 4
• Deputies, French Jewish, 24
• Deuteronomy xvii. 8, &c., explained, 11
• Dispensation, Rabbinic, from oaths, 434
• Divorce, Rabbinic, doctrine of, 373
• Drunkenness allowed on feast of Purim, 47
• Edomites, Christians called, 123
• Eleazar, Rabbi, 6
• Elijah, the Prophet, conversation of, with R. Jose, 323
• Epicureans, 4
  • to be killed, 36
• Epicurean, reader in synagogue suspected of being, 127
• Evasion, Rabbinic, 80, 83, 107, 225, 235
• Excommunication for not washing hands, 75
  • Rabbinic, 239
  • laws concerning, with respect to the unlearned and learned, 239
  • injustice of, 239
• Fast on the ninth of Av, 216
• Fasting, merit of, 264
• Fire, not to be extinguished, 102
• Flogging of rebellion, 99, 211, 228, 383, 386, 420
• Friday, Good, 87
• Gentile, who studies the law, guilty of death, 22
  • who keeps a Sabbath-day, guilty of death, 22
  • good advice not to be given to, 33
  • woman not to be helped in child-bed, 33
  • not neighbour, 34
  • lost property not to be restored to, 35
  • Daniel punished for giving good advice to, 33
  • who wishes to turn Jew, 63
  • a Jew not publicly to receive alms from, 306
  • Sabbath not to be profaned to save a Gentile’s life, 212, 214
  • food regarded as carrion, 383
  • food not to be eaten, 383, 416
  • wine unlawful, 419
  • he that steals from, only to pay the principal, 34
  • wine, to drink, worse than fornication, 424
• Gentiles, idolatrous, to be exterminated, 42
  • to be converted by force, 42
  • idolatrous, not to be suffered in the land of Israel, 28
• Gentile, drowning, not to be delivered, 30
• Gentiles, duties towards, 24
  • not brethren, 26
  • not neighbours, 26
  • not to be greeted except from fear, 10, 26, 28
  • condemned for transgressing the command about tabernacles, 288
  • still have the defilement of the serpent, 156
  • cursing the, on the feast of Passover, 120, 121, 122
  • no pious, now, 67
  • marriage of, not binding, 58
  • and dogs, 107
• Gershom, R., anathema by, 366
• Hands, laying on of, 328
  • washing of, 71
• Heathen, who are not in a state of salvation, 5
• High Priest, an unlearned man, 7
• Hilchoth Accum, 28, 33
  • Avadim, 21
  • Avel, 428
  • Berachoth, 71, 73
  • Deoth, 113
  • Genevah, 34
  • Gezelah, 34
  • Girushin, 375
  • Gittin, 374
  • Iom Tov, 116
  • Ishuth, 366
  • Issure Biah, 64
  • Kiddush Hachodesh, 100
  • Maakaloth Asuroth, 419
  • Mamrim, 335
  • Matt’noth Aniim, 304
  • Megillah, 48
  • Mikvaoth, 72
  • M’lachim, 22, 25
  • P’riah u’r’viah, 7
  • Rotzeach, 32, 33
  • Sanhedrin, 172, 342
  • Sh’vuoth, 436
  • Taanith, 216
  • Talmud Torah, 17, 148
  • T’phillah, 2, 128
  • T’shuvah, 4, 247
• Hillel, the elder, 187
• Holyday, how to make fire on, 106
• Holydays, additional, prescribed by the rabbies, 98, 101
• Jeremiah unjustly condemned, 13
• Jewish-German, 283
• Jews persecuted in Spain and Portugal, 42
• Illegitimate, a learned man takes precedence of High Priest, 7
• Intolerance, Talmudic, 28-39
• Ioma, 19
• Jonathan, son of Uzziel, 187
• Jost’s history, 125
• Isaac, merit of offering, 271
• Jubilee, year of, 66
• Judaism the religion of the oral law, 2
  • and of the Jewish Prayer-book, 2
  • and Christianity cannot both be true, 3
  • a false religion, 465
  • its authors wicked men, 467
• Judgment, Rabbinic, idea of the final, 287
• Karo, R. Joseph, 17
• K’hillath Shlomoh, 282
• Kiddushin, 19
• Kimchi, 93
• Leaven, putting away of, 80
• Legends, 127-167
• Levi, family of, still known, 312
  • privileges of, in the synagogue, 313
  • David, 134
• Leviathan, legend of, 128, &c.
• Levites, scriptural privileges of, 311
• Liberty, religious, first taught by Jesus Christ, 46
• Luck, good, 182
• Magic allowed by Talmud, 168-174
• Maimonides, 25, et passim
  • intolerance, 26
• Meat, lawful and unlawful, 397
  • in milk, laws concerning, 404
  • contrary to Scripture, 404, 405
• Medrash Rabba, 153
• Merit of ancestors, 285
• Merit, doctrine of, 247, &c.
• Messiah, already come, 387
• Miracles, Rabbinic, 203
• Mishna, recognised in Jewish Prayer-book, 3
• Mixture, Rabbinic, command of, 116
• Muktzeh, 103
• Napoleon, 24
• New Year, Jewish, 247
• New Year, judgment at, 247
  • prayers for, 264
  • merit and advantage of blowing the horn on, 266
• Noachidæ, 25, 41
  • who they are, 55
  • seven commandments of, 56
  • may transgress commandments, 57
  • murderer of, not to be put to death, 62
  • unintentionally killing a Jew, to be put to death, 61
  • when received, 67
  • how received, 68
• Oral law opposed to the Word of God in duty to parents, 9, 10
  • a mixed system of good and evil, 16
  • how much time to be devoted to the study of, 16
  • women and children not to study, 18
  • perpetual and unchangeable, 53
  • precepts of, given to Moses, 161
• Oaths, Rabbinic dispensation from, 435, 450
• Parable of Good Samaritan illustrated, 29
• Parents, if in captivity, to be redeemed after the Rabbi, 9
  • duty to, according to oral law, 9
• Passover, rites of, 79
  • Christ our, 91
  • four cups of, 96
• Pentecost prayers, 145
• Pesachim, treatise, 6
• Pharisees, enemies of the Lord Jesus, 9
  • bad men, 8
• Physician, Jewish, not to cure idolaters, 33
• Pirke, Eleazer, 137
• Planets, 175
• Polygamy, allowed, 366
• Poor, Rabbinic, oppression of the, 97
  • Rabbinic religion not for the, 237
  • Rabbinic cruelty to, 414, 429
• Power, Rabbinic, to excommunicate, 239
• Prayer-book, Jewish, acknowledges and teaches the authority of the Talmud, 2, 3
  • Jewish, full of legends, 127-167
• Priests, scriptural office of, 310
• Proselytes, sojourning, 26
  • how to be instructed, 63
  • baptism of, 304
• Purgatory, Rabbinic, 296
• Purim, feast of, 47
• Rabbi, duty to, goes before duty to parents, 9, 10
  • fear of, as the fear of God, 11
  • reverence due to, 15
  • whosoever despises a, to be excommunicated, 15
  • not to forgive a public affront, 243
  • method of creating a, 328
• Rabbies not agreed, 399, 400
• Rabbinic charity, 112
  • evasion, 107, 110
  • order, novelty of, 328
  • power to excommunicate, 239
  • acknowledgments that Messiah is born, 389-393
• Ramban, 142
• Rome called Edom, 123
• Rosh Hashanah, 298
• Saadiah Gaon, 162
• Sabbath, unlawful for a Gentile to keep a, 22
  • laws of, 104, 114-119
  • spirits cannot be cited on, 141
  • damned have rest on, 141
• Sabbath-day, amulets on, 184
• Sabbath, laws concerning, 285-290
  • lamp, reward for, 229
  • moving things on, 232
  • merit of keeping the, 224
  • jurisdictions, 232
• Salvation, who are excluded from, by the oral law, 4
• Sambation, 139
• Sanhedrin, not infallible, 8
  • great council of, 168
  • members of, magicians, 168
  • understood seventy languages, 168
  • all handsome men, 171
  • pillar of the oral law, 335
  • a later, may reverse the decision of a former, 335
  • not a Divine institution, 337
  • of Greek origin, 341
  • greater and lesser, 343
  • business of, 345
  • death to those who rebelled against, 344
  • contrary to Scripture, 345
  • Parisian, 366
• Satan deceived by the blowing of the horn in the month of Elul, 266
• Scapegoat, 280
• Schoolmasters, Rabbinic, 315
• Scripture, women not bound to study, 18
  • not to be studied so much as the Talmud, 16
  • when not to be studied at all, 17
• Sepher Jetzirah, 181
• Schulchan Aruch, 7
• Sinai, 163
• Slaughtering, laws concerning, 380
  • laws of, 396
• Slaves exempt from the duty of studying the law of God, 17
  • unlawful to teach, 21
  • regarded as beasts, 431
• Souls of all Israel at Sinai, 152
• Sotah, 76
• Stars, influence of, 175
• Study of the law equivalent to all the commandments, 51
• Tabernacles, feast of, 287
  • merit of, 287
  • prayers for the feast of, 295
• Talmud, recognised in Jewish Prayer-book, 3
  • legends of, 128, 167
• Tradition, Rabbinic argument for overthrow, 11
  • no unbroken train of, 350
• Treatise, Avodah Zarah, 291
  • Bava Bathra, 187
  • Berachoth, 161
  • Gittin, 192
  • Moed Katon, 175
  • Shabbath, 157
  • Succah, 180
  • Z’vachin, 150
• Turnus Rufus, 140, 216
• Unlearned man, lawful to kill, 6
  • the wives and daughters of, not to be taken as wives, 6
  • to be accounted as beasts, 6
  • man, unlawful for, to eat meat, 7
• Van Oven, Joshua, Esq., Manual of Judaism, 465
• Venus planet, 177
• Washing of hands, 71
  • to neglect, as bad as fornication, 76
  • who neglects, excommunicated, 75
• Wine, Gentile, unlawful, 419
• Woman, insane, to be turned out, 377
• Women, exempt from the duty to study the law, 17
  • do not receive the same reward as a man, 18
  • not to be taught the law, 18
  • minds of, not equal to the study of the law, 18
  • command of Moses, respecting, 21
  • duties of, prescribed in New Testament, 22
  • Rabbinic degradation of, 359
  • cannot give testimony, 360
  • not regarded as part of the congregation, 361
• World to come, who are excluded from, 4
  • all Israel has a share in, 64
  • Rabbinic opinions about, 129

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