A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK

Sketches of Jewish Social Life

Edersheim, Alfred, 1825-1889 · 109,415 words · 126 reading sections

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Appendix 2

Samuel, when he had seen an evil dream, said (Zech 10:2): "For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams speak false things." And when he saw a good dream he said: "And should dreams indeed speak falsehood seeing it is written (Num 12:6), I will speak in a dream to him?'" Raba a…

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Appendix 2

In the end Raba went alone to him. He said to him: "I have seen that the inner house-door has fallen." He said to him: "Thy wife shall die." He said to him: "I saw that my molar teeth and my teeth fell out." He said to him: "Thy sons and thy daughters shall die." He said to him: "I saw that two doves flew away." He…

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SECTION 123

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[And so the interpretation of dreams goes on for other two and a half folio pages. These three specimen extracts may suffice to give examples of the indifferent, the good, and the absurd, which constitute the Talmud. They will show the necessity of discrimination, and how readily the Talmud, as a whole, may be eith…

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Joshua [146]1:8 [147]10:13 [148]17:11 [149]17:16 [150]18:9 [151]20:7 [152]22:24 [153]22:25 [154]24:26 Judges [155]1:27 [156]7:19 [157]8:14 [158]13:23 1 Samuel [159]2:36 [160]10:2 [161]10:3 [162]14:45 [163]15:22 [164]18:25 [165]25:6 [166]25:29 [167]25:29 [168]30:17 [169]31:10 [170]31:12 2 Samuel [171]8:3-14 [1…

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Micah [356]1 [357]5:2 [358]6:4 Zechariah [359]2:12 [360]2:16 [361]10:2 [362]11:1 [363]12:11-14 Malachi [364]2:13 Matthew [365]1:18 [366]1:19 [367]2:5 [368]2:16 [369]2:17 [370]2:18 [371]2:22 [372]4:13 [373]4:15 [374]4:15 [375]4:23 [376]4:25 [377]5:14 [378]5:18 [379]5:22 [380]5:23 [381]5:32 [382]6:5 [383]6:26 […

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Acts [604]1:8 [605]2:5 [606]2:46 [607]5:6 [608]5:10 [609]5:37 [610]5:42 [611]6:9 [612]6:9 [613]7:19 [614]8:2 [615]8:28 [616]9:32-43 [617]9:35 [618]9:36 [619]9:37 [620]9:39 [621]10:23 [622]10:24 [623]10:28 [624]10:39 [625]11:3 [626]11:20 [627]11:21 [628]11:26 [629]12:13 [630]12:14 [631]12:19 [632]13:15 [633]13:15 …

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