world to the Exodus, was read in the first year; Exod. xiii, 17-Num.^•i, 27, embracing the laws of both Sinai and the tabernacle, formed the lessons for the Sabbaths of the second j'ear; and Numb, vii, 1-Deut. xxxiv, 12, containing both historij (i. e. the history of thirty-nine years' wanderings in the wilderness) and Iniv (i.e. the repetition of the Mosaic lawO, constituted the Sabbatic lessons for the third year (compare Megilla, 29, b, and Volkskhrer, ii, 209).
3. The manner of reading the Law and the Prophets. —Every Sabbatic lesson from the law (n-linn nx^lp) is divided into seven sections (evidently designed to correspond to the seven days of the week), which, in the days of oiur Saviour and afterwards, were read by seven different persons (B-^NI-ip ni'la^L^), who were called ui>on for this purjMse by the congregation or its chief Uishna, Megilla, iv, 2; Maimonides, JacZ //a-CAazate) UUchoth Tephilla, xii, 7). Great care is taken that the
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II. Tahi.k op Festivat. and Fast Lessons.
New Moon.
If it falls on a Sabbath is read
On a Sunday
Feast of Dedication. Day i. Day li. Day iii. Day iv. Day V. Day vi. Day vii. Day viii. Sabbath i. Sabbath ii. Feast op PtrRiw. Sahbatii Pahshetii Saohok. Sauuatu PAKsnETii Paka. Sabuatu Pausuetii Ha-Cuodebu
Sabbath Ha-G.vdol.
Feast of Passover. Day 1.
Day ii.
Choi Meed, Day i.
Day ii. (If it falls on a Sunday the preceding lesson is read.) Day iii. (If on a Monday, the preced- ing lesson.) On a Wednesday or Thursday. Day iv. Sabbath Choi Moed.
Day vii. Day viii.
Day i. Day ii.
If Sabbath, Week day. Feast of Pentecost.
If Sabbath, Week day,
Fast of the Ninth of Ab.
Morning.
Noon. New Year. Day i.
Day ii. Day of Atonement. Morning,
Noon. Feast op Tabernacles.
Dav i.
Choi Moed,
Day ii.
Day i. Day ii. Day iii. Day iv.
Sabbath Choi Moed.
Shemiui Azereth, If Sabbath. Week day.
Simchath Tora.
Sabbath Shuba. Fast Days generally. Mondays and Tuubsdays all the year round.
Numb, xxviii, 9-15 {Maphtir).
Numb, xxviii, 3-15.
Numb, vii, 1-lT.
Numb, vii, 18-23.
Numb, vii, 24-29.
Numb, vii, 30-35.
Numb, vii, .^-41.
Numb, vii, 4'2-17.
Numb. vii,4S-53.
Numb, vii, 54— viii, 4.
Exod. xvii, 8-16. Dent. XXV, lT-19 (Maphtir). Numb, xix, 1-22 {Maphtir). Exod. xii, 1-2U.
Exod. xii, 21-51 ; Numb, xxviii, 10-25 {Maph- tir).
Levit. xxii, 26— xxiii, 44; Numb, xxviii, 16-25 {M(iiJhfir).
Exod. xiii, 1-16 ; Numb, xxviii, 19-25.
Exod. xxii-xxiii, 19 ; Numb, xxviii, 19-25.
Exod. xxiv, 1-26; Numb, xxviii, 19-25. Numb, ix, 1-U; xxviii, 19-25. Exod. xxxiii, 12— xxxiv, 26; Numb, xxviii, 19-25.
Exod. xiii, 17— xv, 26; Numb, xxviii, 19-25
{Jtaijlitir). Deut. xiv, 22— xvi, 17; Numb, xxviii, 19-25
(.Maphtir). Deut. XV, 19— xvi, 17; Numb, xxviii, 19-25
(Maphtir). Exod. xix, 1— XX, 26; Numb, xxviii, 26-31
(MajMir). Deut. xiv, 22— xvi, 17.
Dent. XV, 19— xvi, 17; Numb, xxviii, 20-31 (Ma2>htir).
Deut. iv, 25-40.
Gen. xxi, 1-34 ; Numb, xxix, 1-6 (Maphtir). Gen. xxii, 1-24; Numb, x.^ix, 1-0 (Maphtir). Levit. xvi, 1-34; Numb, xxix, 7-11 (Ma2}htir). Levit. xviii, 1-30.
Levit. xxii, 26— xxiii, 44; Numb, xxix, 12-16
(Maphtir). Levit. xxii, 26— xxiii, 44 ; Numb, xxix, 12-10
(Maphtir). Numb, xxix, 17-25; 17-22 is repeated. Numb, xxix, 20-28 ; 20-25 is repeated. Numb, xxix, 23-31 ; 23-28 is repeated. Numb, xxix, 26-34; 26-31 is repeated. Exod. xxxiii, 12— xxxiv, 26 ; Numb, xxix, 17
-22, if it is the first day of Choi Moed ;
Numb, xxix, 23-2S. if the third ; Numb.
xxix, 26-31, if the fourth day (Maphtir). Deut. xiv, 22 — xvi, 17. Deut. XV, 19— xvi, 17; Numb, xxix, 35— xxx,
1 (Maphtir). Deut. xxxiii, 1— xxxiv, 12; Gen. i, 1— ii, 3:
Numb, xxix, 35— xxx, 1 (Maphtir).
Exod. xxxii, 11-14 ; xxxiv, 1-10. The first section of the Sabbatic lesson from the law.
Isa. Ixvi, 1-24. 1 Sam. XX, lS-42.
Zech. ii, 14 — iv, 7. 1 Kings vii, 40-50. The Book of Esther.
1 Sam. XV, 2-34, or xv, 1-34. Ezek. xxxvi, Ki-HS, or to ver. 36. Ex(^l<:. xiv, 10— xlvi, IS, or xiv, IS
— xlvi, 1.5. Mai. iii, 4-24. Josh, iii, 5-7; v, 2-15; vi, 27, or
V, 2-15.
2 Kings xxiii, 1-9; 21-25.
(Ezek. xxxvi, 37— xxxvii, 17, or J. xxxvii, 1-14. (The Soug of Songs. 2 Sam. xxii, 1-61.
Isa. X, 32— xii, 6.
Isa. X, 32— xii, 0.
Ezek. i, 1-28; iii, 12.
Habak. ii, 20— iii, 19, or iii, 1-19 ;
Esther. Habak. ii, 20— iii, 19, or iii, 1-19.
Jer. viii, 13 — ix, 23 ; Lamenta- tions. Isa. Iv, 6— Ivi, 8. 1 Sam. i, 1— ii, 10. Jer. xxxi, 2-20. Isa. Ivii, 14 — Iviii, 14. Jonah.
Zech. xiv, 1-21. 1 Kings viii, 2-21.
Ezek. xxsviii, IS— xxxix, 16; Ecclesiastes.
1 Kings viii, 54-60; Ecclesiastes.
.Josh, i, 1-lS.
IIos. xiv, 2-9 ; Joel ii, 15-27.
Isa. Iv, 0— Ivii, 8.
whole nation should be reprosented at this reading of the law and prophets. Hence a Cohen. ("nD) or priest is called to the reading of the first portion, a Levi ("^IP) to the second, and an Israel (bx* w"') to the third; and after the three great divisions of the nation have thus been didy represented, the remaining four portions are assigned to four others with less care. "Every one thus called to the reading of the law must unroll the scroll, and, having found the place where lie is to begin to read, pronounces the following benediction — 'Bless ye the Lord, who is ever blessed;' to which tlie congre- gation respond, ' Blessed be the Lord, who is blessetl for